Hypertext Webster Gateway: "acquisitiveness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, 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. --Combe.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
acquisitiveness
n : strong desire to acquire and possess
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