The quality or state of being carnivorous; the tendency or characteristic of eating meat.
Formed from 'carnivorous' by adding the suffix '-ity' (which creates nouns from adjectives). The root remains Latin 'carnis' and 'vorare', following English word-building conventions.
This word is quite rare—most people just say 'carnivorous nature' instead. But creating '-ity' nouns from adjectives is one of English's most productive patterns, which is why we can theoretically turn almost any adjective into an abstract quality!
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