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Esurient vs Esurience - What's the difference?

esurient | esurience |

As nouns the difference between esurient and esurience

is that esurient is one who is hungry or greedy while esurience is the quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.

As an adjective esurient

is very hungry or greedy; ravenous.

esurient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
    • (Bailey)
  • * Carlyle
    • Poor, but esurient .
  • *1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 177:
  • *:I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is hungry or greedy.
  • * Wood
    • An insatiable esurient after riches.

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    esurience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger