rapacity
n . 搶奪,貪欲,貪婪
搶奪,貪欲,貪婪
rapacity n 1 :
extreme gluttony [
synonym : {
edacity }, {
esurience },
{
rapaciousness }, {
rapacity }, {
voracity }, {
voraciousness }]
2 :
reprehensible acquisitiveness ;
insatiable desire for wealth (
personified as one of the deadly sins ) [
synonym : {
avarice },
{
greed }, {
covetousness }, {
rapacity }, {
avaritia }]
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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 ]
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "
rapacity ":
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
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RAPACITY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of RAPACITY is the quality of being rapacious
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