rapacity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/
Etymology
From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité (whence -acity, from Latin rapācitās, from rapāx, from rapiō (“snatch, grab, carry off”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 212:Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.
1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Hare Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume IV, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 3:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rapacities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Mammon · voracity · rapacity · gluttony · greed · rapaciousness · greediness · cupidity · covetousness · ravin · covetise · avarice · rapaciousness
Translations (12)
uk жадібність (greed) · bg ненаситност (greed) · sv girighet (greed) · sv rovgirighet (greed) · fr rapacité (greed) · kmr hesûdî (greed) · eo avareco (greed) · de Raubgier (greed) · uk загребущість (greed) · bg алчност (greed) · ro rapacitate (greed) · el αρπακτικότητα (greed)