rapacity

From rapac(ious) +‎ -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/

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• Rhymes: -æsɪti
• Hyphenation: ra‧pa‧ci‧ty

rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)

1. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 212:

     A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

• See also Thesaurus:greed