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noun
Acquisitiveness  n.  
1.
The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
2.
(Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.





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"Acquisitiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... sorry: wind and threatenings of rain. Moreover it was cold and overcast. Yet nothing damped the ardour of the sellers, and the acquisitiveness of the buyers. But—had I come upon a nursery of hallelujah lasses? Were the nights to be made hideous with Salvation Army howls? On all sides of me were great girls and little girls, matrons and maids, ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... me, my Lord, it is not without some difficulty that I check my natural impulse to follow you, as a scholar, into the interesting analysis of the distinctions which may be drawn between Rapacity and Acquisitiveness; between the Avarice, or the prudent care, of possession; between the greed, and the modest expectation, of gain; between the love of money, which is the root of all evil; and the commercial spirit, ...
— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Acquisitiveness" :   retentivity, acquisitive, bibliomania, retentiveness, unacquisitive


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