reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain
disapproval Rapacity is very greedy or selfish behaviour. He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on `selfishness' and `rapacity'
{i} greediness, covetousness, selfishness; predaciousness, quality of hunting other creatures for food
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves