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Type Words
Synonyms hungriness
Type of drive
Has types bulimia, esurience, famishment, malnourishment, ravenousness, starvation, undernourishment, voraciousness, voracity, edacity, emptiness
Derivation hungry
Type Words
Synonyms crave, lust, starve, thirst
Type of desire, want
Type Words
Synonyms hungriness, thirst, thirstiness
Type of desire
Derivation hungry


hunger for affection.
Type Words
Synonyms famish, starve
Type of suffer, hurt
Type Words
Type of ache, smart, hurt

Examples of hunger

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Hunger advocates have warned against stripping those programs of those reserves.
From the kansas.com
This is not a matter of being money hunger but rather sound economic principles.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, they shall have their fill.
From the nzcatholic.org.nz
According FAO, 925 million people currently suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
This may be true, and laudable, but the hunger for intoxication never goes away.
From the guardian.co.uk
She has neither Ms. Palin's hunger for melodrama nor her thirst for controversy.
From the kentucky.com
I hunger for the sight of a moral man, a man of integrity, principle and reason.
From the time.com
They seduce men by giving them control over hunger, though this can be illusory.
From the bloomberg.com
When the hunger got too extreme, Elizabeth began binging until her stomach hurt.
From the dallasnews.com
More examples
  • A physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation
  • Feel the need to eat
  • Crave: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  • Strong desire for something (not food or drink); "a thirst for knowledge"; "hunger for affection"
  • Starve: be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
  • (hungry) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"
  • Hunger is the most commonly used term to describe the social condition of people (or organisms) who frequently experience, or live with the threat of experiencing, the physical sensation of hunger.
  • Hunger/La Faim is a 1974 animated short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It was directed by Peter Foldes and is one of the first computer animation films. The story, told without words, is a cautionary tale about greed and gluttony in the (then) modern society.
  • Hunger is a 2001 film written and directed by Maria Giese, based upon the 1890 novel of the same title by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.