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Acquisitiveness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. uncountable, usually

    "Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate, by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest of beauty, and the aspirations that were [its] guide."

  2. 2
    strong desire to acquire and possess wordnet
  3. 3
    The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. uncountable, usually

    "Had she a little more of the organ of Acquisitiveness in her head—a little more of the love of property in her nature, she would take a good-sized sheet of paper and write plainly out, in her own queer but clear and legible hand, the story that has been narrated, the song that has been sung to her, and thus possess what she was enabled to create."

Etymology

From acquisitive + -ness.

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