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English Dictionary: acquisitiveness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
acquisitiveness
n
  1. strong desire to acquire and possess
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, n.
      1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire
            property; desire of possession.
  
      2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute
            the desire of acquiring and possessing. --Combe.
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