Rapacity
noun
An extreme desire for wealth or goods, often leading to dishonesty or misconduct.
Their rapacity led them to steal from their own company.
Often appears as...
- rapacity for wealth
- rapacity of desires
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
noun
An extreme desire for wealth or goods, often leading to dishonesty or misconduct.
Their rapacity led them to steal from their own company.
Often appears as...
- rapacity for wealth
- rapacity of desires
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Rapacity is usually negative, hinting at excessive, immoral pursuit of wealth.
The rapacity of the corrupt official was notorious.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Money
Rapacity can refer to insatiable desire for more than money, like power or resources.
His rapacity for land knew no bounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Use 'rapacity' to emphasize the emotional intensity of someone's greed.
The CEO's rapacity ruined the lives of many employees.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Rapacity is usually negative, hinting at excessive, immoral pursuit of wealth.
The rapacity of the corrupt official was notorious.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Money
Rapacity can refer to insatiable desire for more than money, like power or resources.
His rapacity for land knew no bounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Use 'rapacity' to emphasize the emotional intensity of someone's greed.
The CEO's rapacity ruined the lives of many employees.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Rapacity is usually negative, hinting at excessive, immoral pursuit of wealth.
The rapacity of the corrupt official was notorious.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Money
Rapacity can refer to insatiable desire for more than money, like power or resources.
His rapacity for land knew no bounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Use 'rapacity' to emphasize the emotional intensity of someone's greed.
The CEO's rapacity ruined the lives of many employees.
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Quote examples
Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Quote examples
William Barr
American Public Servant
No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.
Quote examples
Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Quote examples
William Barr
American Public Servant
No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.
Example 1 of 2
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