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acquisitiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, n.
The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
(Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
--Combe.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. 2 (lb en phrenology) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
WordNet
n. strong desire to acquire and possess
Wikipedia
Acquisitiveness is a phrenological faculty.
Usage examples of "acquisitiveness".
Such are the functions of Acquisitiveness, Secretiveness, Selfishness, and Combativeness, as well as the Generative powers.
Bech, long mangled by citified cynicism, will now enter Rabbitland, with its safety, its squabbling, its marathon acquisitiveness.