rapacity
n.
greediness, covetousness, selfishness; predaciousness, quality of hunting other creatures for food
rapacity
Noun
1. extreme gluttony
(synonym) edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voracity, voraciousness
(hypernym) gluttony
2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
(synonym) avarice, greed, covetousness, avaritia
(hypernym) mortal sin, deadly sin
Rapacity
(n.)
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
(n.)
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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rapacity
n.
1. seizure by force
سخت گيري, غارت گري, لوٹ مار
2. greediness
لوبھ, طمع, آپدا, لالچ, (حرص)
rapacity
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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