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Acquisitiveness   Listen
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



... angular woman had leapt to her conclusion. Much less money than had been expected—no signs of money having been spent and here, not the cunning knave whom she had expected, but a garrulous open fool, giving away what was perhaps a golden secret! Mammon, the greed of acquisitiveness, the voracious appetite for getting more, gleamed ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony
... of the firm is merely conventional, a trading title,' said Merton; 'if you want to know my name, there it is,' and he handed his card to the marquis, who stared at it, and (apparently from motiveless acquisitiveness) put it into ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang


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


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