rapacity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun extreme gluttony
    edacity; esurience; voracity; voraciousness; rapaciousness.
  2. noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    avarice; covetousness; avaritia; greed.

WordNet

Ra*pac"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacite. See Rapacious.
Definitions
  1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
  2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." Sprat.

Webster 1913