acquisitiveness
/əˈkwɪzɪtɪvnɪs
/noun [mass noun]
Excessive interest in acquiring money or material things: a culture of acquisitiveness permeated his administration...
- Yet this lack of acquisitiveness, this disregard for hoarding, has earned indigenous communities sobriquets like ‘uncivilized’ or ‘primitive’.
- For those entering the workforce, acquisitiveness and competition too frequently eclipse other philosophical and religious values, including that of the greater good.
- But capitalism does not reward compassion and cooperation; it is driven by acquisitiveness and individualism.
Synonyms
greed, greediness, covetousness, cupidity, possessiveness, grasping, graspingness, grabbing, avarice, avidity, predatoriness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness, mercenariness, materialism
informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing
North American informal grabbiness
rare Mammonism
- thereby hangs a tale
- the Reconstruction
- the red planet
- therefor
- therefore
- therefrom
- the Regency
- there goes ——
- therein
- thereinafter
- thereinbefore
- thereinto
- there is little (or nothing) to choose between
- there is method in someone's madness
- there is no harm in ——
- there is no help for it
- there is no holding someone
- there is no knowing
- there is no mistaking ——
- there is no rose without a thorn
- there is no saying
- there is no telling
- there is nothing like
- there is nothing to it
- (there is) no time like the present