Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ACQUISITIVENESS
ACQUISITIVENESS Ac *quis "i *tive *ness, n.
1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
2. (Phren.)
Defn: The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.
New American Oxford Dictionary
acquisitiveness
ac quis i tive ness |əˈkwizitivnis | ▶noun excessive interest in acquiring money or material things: a culture of acquisitiveness permeated his administration.
Oxford Dictionary
acquisitiveness
ac ¦quisi ¦tive |ness |əˈkwɪzɪtɪvnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] excessive interest in acquiring money or material things: a culture of acquisitiveness permeated his administration.
American Oxford Thesaurus
acquisitiveness
acquisitiveness noun their three children seem to possess none of the acquisitiveness so typical of Hollywood brats: greed, greediness, covetousness, cupidity, possessiveness, avarice, avidity, rapaciousness, rapacity, materialism; informal affluenza.
Oxford Thesaurus
acquisitiveness
acquisitiveness noun the grasping acquisitiveness of an affluent society: greed, greediness, covetousness, cupidity, possessiveness, grasping, graspingness, grabbing, avarice, avidity, predatoriness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness, mercenariness, materialism; informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing; N. Amer. informal grabbiness; rare Mammonism.
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