noun. The character of being rapacious; the exercise of a rapacious or predaceous disposition; the act or practice of seizing by force, as plunder or prey, or of obtaining by extortion or chicanery, as unjust gains: as, the rapacity of pirates, of usurers, or of wild beasts.

noun. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness

noun. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

noun. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

noun. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

noun. extreme gluttony

"Now it unfortunately happened that Mr. Butterfield remembered to have heard the word rapacity used by a brother-magistrate, at the quarter-sessions, in a very different sense than the one to which it had just been applied by his lady."

deadly sin  gluttony  mortal sin  

avarice  barbarity  caprice  covetousness  cupidity  

acquisitiveness  avarice  avariciousness  avidity  avidness