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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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