Rapacity

4 definitions found

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

  Rapacity \Ra*pac"i*ty\ (r[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L.
     rapacitas: cf. F. rapacit['e]. See {Rapacious}.]
     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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rapacity
       n 1: extreme gluttony [syn: {edacity}, {esurience}, {rapaciousness},
             {voracity}, {voraciousness}]
       2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
          (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {avarice}, {greed},
           {covetousness}, {avaritia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  RAPACITY, n.  Providence without industry.  The thrift of power.