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The state of wanting or needing food.

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  • Their hungriness was very apparent as they ran to the cafeteria.
  • Adjective : He approached the table with a hungry look. ,hungry land. ,The depression years were hungry times. ,a hungry investment firm looking for...
  • We spend most of the year hiding from the cold, we are not that comfortable in our bodies, we're reserved, polite, easily embarrassed and we just lack a kind of...
  • Man should only eat his fellow man out of hungriness.
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