rapaciousness
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9.9
- noun
- /rəˈpeɪʃəsnəs/
- Formal
:
rapacidad
- I love people who suffer because of the rapaciousness of big companies; I love American people who try to resist.
Examples
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The politician's rapaciousness for donations led to a scandal that shocked the public.
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It is foolish to expect even the noblest human conceptions to be immaculate, detached from the base impulses of human nature: appetite, cupidity, rapaciousness.
Fiction book (2001) -
Where do we go for redress against the rapaciousness of corporate?
Blog text (24) -
We must reduce our rapaciousness and adopt peaceful coexistence with each other and spaceship Earth.
Blog text (29) -
We thus accept an economy whose byproducts are brutality, rapaciousness, and environmental contamination.
Academic text (2004) -
Wherever it is imitated, American economic energy brings with it American shortsightedness, rapaciousness, neglect of healthy daily rhythms, and an alienation from the inner life.
Academic text (1993) -
The rapaciousness of princes is the true cause of the injustice and the violence that they exert with respect to their subjects. The greed of citizens
Academic text (2016) -
Peasants held the representatives of an unworldly faith guilty of a distinctly worldly rapaciousness, and priests felt that they were rendering essential services that should be paid for.
Academic text (1992) -
Further odious attributes endemic to war, such as rapaciousness, voraciousness, and injustice, are also assigned to the wolf in the scientific and art-theoretical literature of the time.
Academic text (1996) -
The rapaciousness of the land developer forced many long-time residents to sell their homes.
Synonyms
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1.9
A strong selfish wish for more, especially money or power
11
9.9
A very strong desire to have more money and things
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8.4
A very strong hunger or want for something you cannot get enough of
1
9.9
A very strong desire to have more money and things
1
8.8
A very strong desire for money and things
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4.0
Wanting too much money or things and not being satisfied
1
9.9
A very strong wish to have more money or things than you need
1
8.1
A strong wish to get and keep money and things
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7.9
A very strong desire for more food, money or success
1
7.4
The act of trying to get as much money as possible, often dishonestly
A strong greedy wish to take more than is fair
A very strong desire to have a lot of money and things
A strong desire to have more than your fair share of things
A strong, single-minded desire to get money and material things
Wanting personal gain, especially money, more than loyalty or doing what is right
Antonyms
How Greedy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rapaciousness comes from the Latin verb rapere, which means 'to grab', and is related to raptor, a bird of prey that grabs its food. So, rapaciousness describes a greedy, predatory wish to take or grab more than is fair.