emacity

Noun

1. Desire or fondness for buying
   • …in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he...
   • By which means he had contracted such an habitual emacity, as Pliny calls it (or propensity to purchase every thing that we see) especially if it strikes our fancy, under the idea of being cheap or a great bargain, that...
   • He laughed at people who contracted habits of ‘emacity’ and found they must accumulate, and yet he confessed that he himself had a desire to collect pictures and for that purpose often attended auctions in Bath, where,...