cupidity

desirous; desiring; inclined (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharpset, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse., greedy, greedy as a hog; overeager, voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, covetous, rapacious, grasping, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous., unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked.