Word Meanings - RAPACITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. 2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity

Additional info about word: RAPACITY

1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. 2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." Sprat.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAPACITY)

• Avarice
• Greed
• cupidity
• rapacity
• penuriousness
• niggardliness
• miserliness
• stinginess
• covetousness
• acquisitiveness
• griping
• greediness
• Avidity
• Cupidity
• avarice
• desire
• greed
• longing
• eagerness

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