'Rapacity' definitions:
Definition of 'rapacity'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]
Definition of 'Rapacity'
From: GCIDE
- Rapacity \Ra*pac"i*ty\ (r[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacit['e]. See Rapacious.]
- 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rapacity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquisitiveness,
- avarice,
- avariciousness,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- claim,
- covetousness,
- crapulence,
- crapulency,
- cupidity,
- demand,
- edacity,
- exaction,
- frenzy of desire,
- fury of desire,
- gluttonousness,
- gluttony,
- grasping,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- greediness,
- gulosity,
- hoggishness,
- hyperphagia,
- incontinence,
- inordinate desire,
- insatiability,
- insatiable desire,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- itching palm,
- looting,
- lust,
- omnivorousness,
- overeating,
- overgreediness,
- overindulgence,
- piggishness,
- pillaging,
- polyphagia,
- predacity,
- rapaciousness,
- ravenousness,
- sharkishness,
- sordidness,
- swinish gluttony,
- swinishness,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- wolfishness