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(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
(noun) 
their sexual desire and rapacity
Synonyms
greed
an insatiable greed for power
greediness
voraciousness
insatiableness
avarice
a month's rent - just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice
usury
cupidity (formal)
the well-known cupidity and greed of politicians
avidity
voracity
rapaciousness
predatoriness
graspingness
ravenousness
wolfishness

Additional synonyms

in the sense of avarice
Definition
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
in the sense of avidity
Synonyms
insatiability,
longing,
desire,
hunger,
thirst,
hankering,
avarice,
acquisitiveness,
rapacity,
cupidity (formal),
covetousness,
voracity,
greediness,
graspingness,
ravenousness
in the sense of cupidity
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

Nearby words of
rapacity

  • rap
  • rap someone on the knuckles
  • rapacious
  • rapacity
  • rape
  • rapid
  • rapidity

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