rapacity

Other forms: rapacities

Definitions of rapacity
  1. noun
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed
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    deadly sin, mortal sin
    an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
  2. noun
    extreme gluttony
    synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity
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    gluttony
    habitual eating to excess
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