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insatiability|ɪnseɪʃɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next + -ity, perh. after F. insatiabilité (16th c.), or late L. insatiābilitās (Ammianus).]
The quality of being insatiable; insatiableness.
1654Cokaine Dianea iv. 275 To please the insatiability of those who deprived me of mine owne. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 38 ⁋8 An eagerness for increase of possessions deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulphs of insatiability. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 311 With the usual short-sightedness of commercial insatiability, they..joined in the clamour against the East India Company's exclusive privileges. 1846Blackw. Mag. LIX. 405 The..recklessness, and insatiability of the democrat spirit. |