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View usage for: (rəpæsɪti) uncountable noun [oft with poss]Rapacity is very greedy or selfish behaviour. [formal, disapproval] Overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on selfishness and rapacity. ...the rapacity of landlords and the misery of tenants. Synonyms: greed, greediness, voraciousness, insatiableness More Synonyms of rapacity Synonyms of 'rapacity'greed, greediness, voraciousness, insatiableness More Synonyms of rapacity their sexual desire and rapacity Synonyms greediness voraciousness insatiableness usury avidity voracity rapaciousness predatoriness graspingness ravenousness wolfishness Additional synonymsDefinition extreme greed for wealth a month's rent - just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice Synonyms greed, meanness, penny-pinching, parsimony (formal), acquisitiveness, rapacity, cupidity (formal), stinginess, covetousness, miserliness, greediness, niggardliness, graspingness, close-fistedness, penuriousness Synonyms insatiability, longing, desire, hunger, thirst, hankering, avarice, acquisitiveness, rapacity, cupidity (formal), covetousness, voracity, greediness, graspingness, ravenousness Definition strong desire for wealth or possessions the well-known cupidity and greed of politicians Synonyms avarice, greed, acquisitiveness, rapacity, covetousness, avidity, greediness, rapaciousness, graspingness - rap
- rap someone on the knuckles
- rapacious
- rapacity
- rape
- rapid
- rapidity
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