RAPACITY
avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
(noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness
(noun) extreme gluttony
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)
The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
Synonyms
• See also greed
Source: Wiktionary
Ra*pac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacite. See Rapacious.]
1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." Sprat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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