rapacity

rapacity
    n 1: extreme gluttony [syn: {edacity}, {esurience},
         {rapaciousness}, {rapacity}, {voracity}, {voraciousness}]
    2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
       (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {avarice},
       {greed}, {covetousness}, {rapacity}, {avaritia}]
    

Rapacity \Ra*pac"i*ty\ (r[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L.
   rapacitas: cf. F. rapacit['e]. See {Rapacious}.]
   1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
      ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of
      wolves.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive
      injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of
      some ages." --Sprat.
      [1913 Webster]
    

RAPACITY, n.  Providence without industry.  The thrift of power.
    

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapacity":
      acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, claim,
      covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, cupidity, demand, edacity,
      exaction, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness,
      gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gulosity,
      hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, inordinate desire,
      insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance, intemperateness,
      itching palm, looting, lust, omnivorousness, overeating,
      overgreediness, overindulgence, piggishness, pillaging, polyphagia,
      predacity, rapaciousness, ravenousness, sharkishness, sordidness,
      swinish gluttony, swinishness, voraciousness, voracity,
      wolfishness