rapacity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rapacity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for rapacity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rapacity n extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness] reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) Synonym(s): avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rapacity \Rapac"ity\, n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacite. See {Rapacious}.] 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. 2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. [bd]The rapacity of some ages.[b8] --Sprat.