What's the difference between voracious and voracity?

Voracious


Definition:

  • (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
  • (2) The voracious hunger and profuse perspiration were reduced, the patient's serum lipids became normal, her blood glucose fell, and her sensitivity to exogenous insulin increased.
  • (3) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
  • (4) Following two centuries of voracious exploitation of every mineral, metal and biological resource, we will soon be facing what Daly calls an "empty world".
  • (5) At times the arguments and passion displayed were enough to make the hair on the back of any neutral observer's neck stand up on end - it was impossible not to be inspired by people's voracious belief in their school.
  • (6) For 30 years he has been a voracious buyer of new art and was instrumental in the success of the Young British Artists movement, buying up the best of the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and exhibiting it at the groundbreaking Sensation show at the Royal Academy in 1997.
  • (7) Savile had a voracious sexual appetite,” Smith writes.
  • (8) I was a voracious customer of $10 ebooks, as I confessed in 2011 .
  • (9) Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
  • (10) And appetite is voracious for a greater understanding of the constitution and how courts can become an activist’s tool, experts say, particularly among activists resisting Trump.
  • (11) Jeannette Baxter: You admit to being more of a voracious consumer of visual texts than literary ones.
  • (12) Natural bee keeping as advocated by naturalbeekeepingtrust.org puts the real producers (ie the bees) first rather than voracious consumers.
  • (13) TAR rats that ate crickets before a cyclophosphamide injection were thereafter voracious predators as were saline-injected and pseudoconditioning controls of both strains.
  • (14) No consumer of Mafia culture was more voracious than the Mafia themselves.
  • (15) "Households in the United States and elsewhere propelled the global economy with their voracious appetite for consumption, soaking up imports from countries that relied heavily on exports to grow.
  • (16) When the concentration of calcium ions in the cerebral ventricles is elevated, a fully satiated rat eats voraciously.
  • (17) Everyone knows the story of how Liz MacKean , a reporter for BBC Newsnight and her producer, Meirion Jones , found the evidence that Savile was a voracious paedophile and how the BBC stopped them broadcasting.
  • (18) Peres wrote 11 books, read poetry voraciously, and could quote from Old Testament prophets, French literature and Chinese philosophy with equal ease.
  • (19) The warning is being sounded over a voracious species called the New Guinea flatworm.
  • (20) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?

Voracity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oiticica warned in 1968 of a "bourgeois voracity" that would commodify the culture he wanted to assert: "Those who made [pop art] 'stars and stripes' are now making their parrots and banana trees, or are interested in slums, samba schools, outlaw anti-heroes."

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