noun. In psychology: The proprietary or collecting instinct.

noun. The capacity for learning or for intellectual acquisition.

noun. The quality of being acquisitive; a propensity to acquire property.

noun. In phrenology, the organ to which is attributed the function of producing the general desire to acquire and possess, apart from the uses of the objects. Sometimes called covetiveness.

noun. See cut under phrenology.

noun. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

noun. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

noun. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

noun. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

noun. strong desire to acquire and possess

"We might study if acquisitiveness is a characteristic that shows variation due to genetics across population groups."

acquittal in law  

greed  

bibliomania  retentiveness  retentivity  

belligerence  blatancy  combativeness  electron­phonon  respectfulness