edacity

The state of being edacious; huge capacity for eating; greediness; voracity; rapacity.

Noun

  1. The state of being edacious; huge capacity for eating; greediness; voracity; rapacity.
    • It is true, that the wolf is a beast of great edacity and digestion […] - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten...
    • [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come! - 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall,...

Origin

From Latin edacitas.