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Esurient vs Voracious - What's the difference?

esurient | voracious |

As adjectives the difference between esurient and voracious

is that esurient is very hungry or greedy; ravenous while voracious is wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

As a noun esurient

is one who is hungry or greedy.

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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    voracious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
  • * 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:
    • I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
  • * 1867 , , ch. 45:
    • The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
  • * 1910 , , "The Human Drift":
    • Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
  • Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).
  • * 1922 , , ch. 7:
    • If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
  • * 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, " The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:
    • Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.

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    * voraciously * voraciousness * voracity