rapacity
The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
Noun
- The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
- Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in...
- A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. - 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The...
Synonyms: rapaciousness avarice covetise covetousness cupidity gluttony greed greediness Mammon rapacity ravin voracity
Origin
From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.