rapacity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)
- The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 212:
- A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:greed
Translations[edit]
greed
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