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Rapacity
//ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti// noun
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Noun
- 1 The quality of being rapacious; voracity. countable, uncountable
"Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion."
- 2 reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) wordnet
- 3 extreme gluttony wordnet
- 4 (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. wordnet
Etymology
From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.
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