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.
Related words: (words related to INSATIABLENESS)
- 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.