acquisitiveness

Meaning

  1. (uncountable, usually) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
  2. (uncountable, usually) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

Synonyms

Translations

Erwerbstrieb

Gewinnsucht

Erwerbssinn

concupiscència

πλεονεκτικότητα

aplistia

pleonexia

tendenza ad accumulare

aviditeit

Etymology

From acquisitive + -ness.

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