acquisitiveness

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

acquisitive +‎ -ness

Noun

acquisitiveness (usually uncountable; plural acquisitivenesses)

1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
2. (phrenology) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

References

• acquisitiveness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913