Definition of "ravenousness" [ravenousness]

• The state or character of being ravenous; furious avidity; rage for prey. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "His ravenousness reminds us of this species which some bright person brought to our country to promote fish farming, and which is now a pest in our rivers and lakes."
• "Then it occurred to me that I have not yet savoured the taste of borshch-as-imagined-by-Lisa, despite my repeated expressions of salivation and ravenousness."
• "I started to pour some into a cereal bowl, but in my current state of ravenousness, a cereal bowl looked roughly the size of a thimble."