Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Absence of satiety; unsatisfied desire or demand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Insatiableness.
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- noun
insatiableness
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Examples
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It seems that there is a link between low seritonin levels (generally responsible for depression) and high labito as well as general high insatiety. * sigh* I had to ask whether he actually read the study or was just making it up based on my traits.
Biochemistry 2000
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The gnawing insatiety kept her awake, even though she could feel the new stone working on the foliage she had consumed that day and even though the buzzing of the day insects had ceased, indicating that night was at hand.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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'Tis the insatiety of the human beasts of prey immortalized in jurisprudence, and I, Dignity, sanctify all that.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904
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She was a woman with the eyes of an angel, disdainful of men, the mouth of insatiety, the hair and skin of a Lorelei, and a patrician profile.
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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That speaks to a part of us that I have and everybody in our society has, where we want satisfaction from the outside, where we're empty, where we want to be soothed by something in the short term, but we can never feel that or fulfill that insatiety from the outside.
Democracy Now! 2010
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That speaks to a part of us that I have and everybody in our society has, where we want satisfaction from the outside, where we're empty, where we want to be soothed by something in the short term, but we can never feel that or fulfill that insatiety from the outside.
Democracy Now! 2010
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Not content with eating out the vitals of the South, slavery, true to the character which it has acquired for insatiety and rapine, is beginning to make rapid encroachments on new territory; and as a basis for a few remarks on the blasting influence which it is shedding over the broad and fertile domains of the West, which in accordance with the views and resolutions offered by the immortal Jefferson, should have been irrevocably dedicated to freedom, we beg leave to call the attention of the reader to another presentation of the philosophy of free and slave labor.
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