NOUN
- a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
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strong desire for something (not food or drink)
a thirst for knowledge
hunger for affection - a physiological need to drink
How To Use thirstiness In A Sentence
- They seemed rather to be enjoying themselves, displaying a kind of bloodthirstiness which I had not as yet witnessed. Archive 2008-01-01
- bloodthirstiness" of a mate who was, after all, but a normal girl of that day, and who, girl as she was, never for a moment faltered in the high courage with which she threw herself into that combat, responding to the passionate urge for freedom in her blood that not five centuries of inhuman persecution could subdue? The Airlords of Han
- Therefore, I will part with my pride to the noble canons of the church — my luxury, as thou callest it, to the monks of the rule — and my bloodthirstiness to the Knights of the The Talisman
- 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
- If it weren't for the thirstiness after the meal and the high prices, this would be a must visit for me when I have the vegetarian urge.
- Beyond my personal disgust, the danger of their martyrization lies in the support it offers to the belief held by many Jews of a certain persuasion that Islamist terrorism is a consequence of the essential bloodthirstiness of all Islam which is bent on destroying Israel and the Jews. Don't Die For Me
- We just thought the thirstiness was because of the heat, the bed wetting because of the thirstiness and the weight loss because of a growth spurt.
- 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
- Under these mangrove swamps near Dar es Salaam lies a solution for the thirstiness of this large metropole
- As regards the question of Cetywayo's bloodthirstiness, which is so strenuously denied by his apologists, I cannot say that a careful study of the blue books bearing on the subject brings me to the same conclusion. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal