Synonym: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, edacity, esurience, greed, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity. Similar words: capacity, carrying capacity, rapacious, incapacitate, incapacitated, incapacitation, capacious, audacity. Meaning: [rə'pæsətɪ] 
n. 1. extreme gluttony 2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
n. 1. extreme gluttony 2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins). 
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1 He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".
2 Unhappiness was sprung from rapacity.
3 Aristocratic criticism of royal rapacity was a backhanded tribute to that success.
4 Here was neither guile nor rapacity.
5 The experiment showed that the discharge rapacity of the MH electrode increased a little when 3% silver was added, but the amount of the gas escaped from the simulated cell was obviously reduced.
6 The danger is that Chinese rapacity plus African leaders' greed equals the snuffing out of all hope.
7 Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
8 Moated Norfolk, Theodora thought, and moated house, defended against the falsity,[www.Sentencedict.com] rapacity and sheer ugliness of the metropolis.
9 During the whole process of construction, the operational safty and rapacity of track must be guaranteed.
10 Algorithm testing shows: The new maximum flow algorithm in network with both node and edge rapacity confined is completely feasible and availability effective.
11 One throws over all the world and the other is full of rapacity (a word I am not so sure) to the world.
12 In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity .
13 China has a 1500-year history of bureaucratic administration, during which the main problem was to control the rapacity of local officials.
14 Jul 15 th 2010 TO DREAMERS in the West, Tibet is aShangridespoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity.
More similar words: capacity, carrying capacity, rapacious, incapacitate, incapacitated, incapacitation, capacious, audacity, tenacity, veracity, vivacity, sagacity, voracity, pertinacity, perspicacity, taciturnity, pacify, pacific, pacifism, spacious, tacit, pacifistic, tacitly, taciturn, pacification, city, capability, paucity, facility, felicity.