Difference between Rapacity and Greed

RAPACITY vs GREED: NOUN

Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
The character of being rapacious; the exercise of a rapacious or predaceous disposition; the act or practice of seizing by force, as plunder or prey, or of obtaining by extortion or chicanery, as unjust gains: as, the rapacity of pirates, of usurers, or of wild beasts.
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
Extreme gluttony

Excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.
A pondweed (Potamogeton in several species): usually in plural.
Plural Straw used to make manure in a farm-yard.
An excessively eager desire to possess something, especially wealth; avaricious desire; especially, coarse and brutal avarice.
A greedy person.
Synonyms Greediness, Greed; eagerness, avidity. Greediness is used either literally or figuratively, as greediness for food, greediness for favors, applause, knowledge; greed has now lost its literal sense, and is rarely used except for avarice and in such phrases as greed of gain, greed of wealth, greed of gold.
An eager desire or longing; greediness.
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

Malignity, Egotism, Rapine, Venality, Greediness, Cupidity, Avaritia, Esurience, Edacity, Covetousness, Voracity, Voraciousness, Rapaciousness, Greed, Avarice

Sed, Gaming, Bait, Profit, Thirsty, Avidity, Appetite, Hunger, Desire, Ambition, Thirst, Avaritia, Covetousness, Rapacity, Avarice

Prodigality, Arrogance, Hubris, Acquisitiveness, Malignity, Rapine, Venality, Cupidity, Esurience, Edacity, Covetousness, Voracity, Rapaciousness, Greed, Avarice

Breeding, Sed, Gaming, Bait, Profit, Thirsty, Avidity, Appetite, Hunger, Desire, Ambition, Thirst, Covetousness, Rapacity, Avarice

The Romans have not acquired their power by their religion, but by rapacity and acts of violence.
True men know they could deteriorate into fatness and rapacity, and therefore learn to exercise the capacity for violence with discretion.
And this, because his exactions were more vexatious, and gave more scope to rapacity.
Town Manager Rodney Loomis, in his rapacity of Police Commissioner gave Szczcpanik a letter of commendation.
Christians, who have made the poor Indians the victims of their rapacity.
France became almost of necessity a scene of rapacity beyond all precedent.
There is not specific historical time or place but the essence of social rapacity, distilled and concentrated.
Her rapacity was very great and very successful.
The litigation is not, nor ever has been, between their rapacity and his hoarded riches.
When other booksellers mentioned him, they evoked the same picture of unmitigated rapacity.

Their greed blinds them, nothing but oath breakers.
But fail to find, rendered sightless by greed.
Need or Greed Opportunity Rationalization During the holidays, we often see changes in two of these points: increased need or greed and increased opportunity.
The sin of greed is at the root of his metamorphosis; and greed, of course, is rooted in self.
Jossey sir, when people has uncontrollable greed to consume liquor, why cant government has greed for money?
Is reminiscent of its original hatred for Greed Xingese styles of martial arts with Greed power!
While greed cannot be legislated against, the federal government must do its utmost to ensure that such greed does not succeed.
It looks like greed works with greed and once again Christ is anything but a savior to these people.
Plato and Aristotle deemed greed to be at the root of personal immorality, arguing that greed drives.
GREED Netherworld jailor who governs souls sent to hell for the sin of Greed.