noun
- Excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves: avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, graspingness, greed. Informal grabbiness. See desire, give/take/reciprocity.
acquisitiveness
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Meaning #1:
strong desire to acquire and possess
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