rapaciousness
61rapacious — (adj.) 1650s, from L. rapaci , stem of rapax grasping, from rapere (see RAPACITY (Cf. rapacity)) + OUS (Cf. ous). Related: Rapaciously; rapaciousness …
62rapacious — [rə peɪʃəs] adjective aggressively greedy. Derivatives rapaciously adverb rapaciousness noun rapacity noun Origin C17: from L. rapac , rapax (from rapere to snatch ) + ious …
63rapacity — n. 1. Ravenousness, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity, avidity, canine appetite. 2. Greed, ravenousness, exercise of plunder. 3. Avariciousness, greediness of gain …
64raven — I. a. Black, ebony, inky, sable. II. n. 1. Rapine, rapacity, rapaciousness. 2. Prey, plunder, food obtained by violence, ravin. III. v. a. Devour, eat with voracity. IV. v. n. [Written also Ravin.] Prey, be greed …
65rapacious — adjective formal taking everything that you can, especially by using violence: a rapacious band of robbers rapaciously adverb rapaciousness noun (U) rapacity noun (U) …
66acquisitiveness — noun their three children seem to possess none of the acquisitiveness so typical of Hollywood brats Syn: greed, greediness, covetousness, cupidity, possessiveness, avarice, avidity, rapaciousness, rapacity, materialism; informal affluenza …
67greed — *cupidity, rapacity, avarice Analogous words: greediness, covetousness, avariciousness, acquisitiveness (see corresponding adjectives at COVETOUS): voraciousness, ravenousness, rapaciousness, gluttonousness or gluttony (see corresponding… …
68avarice — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fistedness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
69avidity — n 1. eagerness, earnestness, keenness, intentness, intensity, excitement; anxiousness, breath lessness, impatience, longing; enthusiasm, fervor, ardor, fervency, warmth, glow, fire; devotion, devotedness, zeal, feverishness, passion, fanaticism.… …
70churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
