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.