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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. extreme gluttony;
[syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]

2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins);
[syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rapacity \Ra*pac"i*ty\ (r[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacit['e]. See Rapacious.] 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. [1913 Webster] 2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rapacity n 1: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness] 2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.