rapacity

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rapacity

/ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/

Rhymes with -æsɪti

Where it comes from

From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité (whence -acity, from Latin rapācitās, from rapāx, from rapiō (“snatch, grab, carry off”).

noun rapacities

countable, uncountable The quality of being rapacious; voracity. Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.
Similar: rapaciousness, avarice, covetise, covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, greed, greediness, Mammon, rapacity, ravin, voracity

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noun greed

Français	rapacité
Deutsch	Raubgier
Ελληνικά	αρπακτικότητα arpaktikótita
Română	rapacitate

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@misc{rapacity_2026,
  title = {rapacity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rapacity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}