acquisitiveness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

acquisitiveness
    n 1: strong desire to acquire and possess

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, n.
   1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire
      property; desire of possession.
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   2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute
      the desire of acquiring and possessing. --Combe.
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