RAPACITY vs RAPACIOUSNESS: NOUN
- The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
- The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
- The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness
- 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.
- Extreme gluttony
- Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- An excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts)
- The state of being rapacious; extreme gluttony
- The character of being rapacious; inclination to seize violently or unjustly.
- Extreme gluttony
RAPACITY vs RAPACIOUSNESS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Reprehensible acquisitiveness
- (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey.
- (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey.
RAPACITY vs RAPACIOUSNESS: RELATED WORDS
- Malignity, Egotism, Rapine, Venality, Greediness, Cupidity, Avaritia, Esurience, Edacity, Covetousness, Voracity, Voraciousness, Rapaciousness, Greed, Avarice
- Improvidence, Perfidy, Hubris, Miserliness, Malignity, Rapine, Venality, Cupidity, Greed, Avarice, Esurience, Edacity, Voracity, Voraciousness, Rapacity
RAPACITY vs RAPACIOUSNESS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Prodigality, Arrogance, Hubris, Acquisitiveness, Malignity, Rapine, Venality, Cupidity, Esurience, Edacity, Covetousness, Voracity, Rapaciousness, Greed, Avarice
- Megalomania, Acquisitiveness, Improvidence, Perfidy, Hubris, Malignity, Rapine, Venality, Cupidity, Greed, Avarice, Esurience, Edacity, Voracity, Rapacity
RAPACITY vs RAPACIOUSNESS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- 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.
- British, Smuts refashioned the argument to absolve the British Empire of the aggression and rapaciousness that led to war.
- There are, of course, honourable exceptions to rapaciousness.