Usually means: Extreme greed for wealth, resources.
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  1. rapacity: Merriam-Webster
  2. rapacity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rapacity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rapacity: Vocabulary.com
  5. Rapacity, rapacity: Wordnik
  6. rapacity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rapacity: Wiktionary
  8. Rapacity, rapacity: Dictionary.com
  9. rapacity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Rapacity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rapacity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. rapacity: Rhymezone
  13. Rapacity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. rapacity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. rapacity: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rapacity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rapacity: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rapacity)

▸ noun:  The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

Similar:
rapaciousness, voracity, edacity, esurience, covetousness, voraciousness, greed, avarice, avaritia, vulturism, more...

Opposite:
generosity, charity, altruism

Adjectives:
insatiable, own, private, shameless, selfish, cruel, french, human, sexual, unprincipled, official

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Similar:
rapaciousness, voracity, edacity, esurience, covetousness, voraciousness, greed, avarice, avaritia, vulturism, more...

Opposite:
generosity, charity, altruism

Adjectives:
insatiable, own, private, shameless, selfish, cruel, french, human, sexual, unprincipled, official

Colors:
    black,     dark red,     blood red,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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