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Word Meanings - INSATIABLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.

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  • PARTICULARITY
    1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
  • PARTICULARLY
    1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
  • SATISFIER
    One who satisfies.
  • GREEDINESS
    The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak. Syn.-- Ravenousness; voracity; eagerness; avidity.
  • PARTICULARISM
    The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
  • INSATIABLENESS
    Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.
  • APPEASER
    One who appeases; a pacifier.
  • APPEASEMENT
    The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.
  • COVETOUSLY
    In a covetous manner.
  • SATISFIABLE
    That may be satisfied.
  • COVETOUS
    1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
  • APPEASABLE
    Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n.
  • COVETOUSNESS
    1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
  • PARTICULARMENT
    A particular; a detail.
  • PARTICULARIZATION
    The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
  • PARTICULARIST
    One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.
  • INSATIABILITY
    The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.
  • APPEASE
    To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel ; as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose;
  • APPEASIVE
    Tending to appease.
  • PARTICULARIZE
    To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.
  • INAPPEASABLE
    Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

 

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