rapacity

Plural: rapacities

Noun

• Excessive greed or hunger for material gain; ravenousness.
• extreme gluttony
• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
• The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

Examples

• His rapacity for triple word scores was evident in every play he made.

Synonyms

avarice, avaritia, covetousness, edacity, esurience, greed, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity, Mammon, covetise, cupidity, greediness, rapacity