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craving

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?e?.v??/
  • Rhymes: -e?v??

Etymology 1

From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave +? -ing.

Noun

craving (plural cravings)

  1. A strong desire; yearning.

Descendants

  • Jamaican Creole: craven
Translations

Etymology 2

From crave.

Verb

craving

  1. present participle of crave

Further reading

  • craving in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • craving in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • carving

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greediness

English

Etymology

From Middle English gredynesse, from Old English gr?di?nes; equivalent to greedy +? -ness.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???i?din?s/

Noun

greediness (usually uncountable, plural greedinesses)

  1. The state of being greedy; greed.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
      Thereto the body of a dog she had, / Full of fell ravin and fierce greedinesse […]

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:greed

Anagrams

  • Niger seeds, genderises

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