Acquisitiveness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, n.
     1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire
        property; desire of possession.
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     2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute


        the desire of acquiring and possessing. --Combe.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acquisitiveness
       n : strong desire to acquire and possess