omnivorous

From omni- +‎ -vorous; from the Latin omni, all and -vore.

• Hyphenation: om‧niv‧o‧rous

omnivorous (not comparable)

1. Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
2. (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
   • 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion (page 57)

     The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.

   • 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p.72:

     He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]

3. (figuratively) All-consuming.

• omnivorousness

• omnivore, carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous