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acquisitiveness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun acquisitiveness has 1 sense
- acquisitiveness(n = noun.attribute) - strong desire to acquire and possess; is a kind of greed
has particulars: bibliomania, retentiveness, retentivity
Derived form adjective acquisitive1
CIDE DICTIONARY
acquisitiveness, n.
- The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. [1913 Webster]
- The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. [1913 Webster]
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