esurience

English

Noun

esurience (usually uncountable, plural esuriences)

1. The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78:

     To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.