Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being thirsty; thirst.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being thirsty; thirst.

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  • noun The property of being thirsty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
  • noun a physiological need to drink
  • noun strong desire for something (not food or drink)

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Examples

  • I wonder if my thirstiness is a symptom of some health concern.

    The Citizen On Mars 2009

  • He seized them at once with a kind of thirstiness, and learned five different colors in a single lesson; during the following days he took nearly all the objects of the series which he had at first despised, and little by little mastered them all.

    Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

  • And now the von of lovely perfume that came off her made me want to think of starting to heave in my keeshkas, so I knew I had to think of some new like way of thinking about her before all the pain and thirstiness and horrible sickness come over me real horrorshow and proper.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • But the throb and like crash crash crash in my gulliver and the wanting to be sick and the terrible dry rasping thirstiness in my rot, all were worse than yesterday.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • And as for your despair at Republican “militarism” – would that be the same blood-thirstiness that removed two brutal dictatorships from power in recent years.

    A Closed Theory Case Study 2008

  • Broader dangers of the seal hunt include: accidentally clubbing one's own shin, chapped lips, having to get up early, thirstiness, and the all too common: red snowball fight.

    Ryan Reynolds: The Canadian Club Scene 2009

  • And Barbarus' poem in issue 1/1934 had echoes of a crossroads; Cain and Abel were mentioned, and the idea of blood-thirstiness.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • Huge, shiny, gas-guzzling American cars not that their thirstiness matteredpetrol was plentiful at just a few cents a gallon.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • Huge, shiny, gas-guzzling American cars not that their thirstiness matteredpetrol was plentiful at just a few cents a gallon.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

  • And I politely refrained from adding, "despite the blunders and blood-thirstiness of Bush and his friends."

    Jane's armchair tour: Learning about Afghanistan & Kabul the easy way... 2007

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