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• n  extreme gluttony
• n  an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts)

• What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation.
• The attempt of Minneapolis to capture fame as the Kellogg hometown is perfectly comprehensible to one who daily witnesses the editorial rapaciousness of the coarser of the Twin .
• Much of the anger focused on the rapaciousness of his family, whose members controlled large sectors of the economy, from airlines, hotel chains and car manufacturing to a monopoly .

• edacity
• esurience
• rapacity
• voracity
• voraciousness
• greediness