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1. Extreme gluttony
   - edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voracity, voraciousness
    
2. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
   - avarice, greed, covetousness, avaritia
    
3. (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey.
   "The rapacity of carnivorous animals has been considered by some writers to have had a considerable effect on the distribution and even on the extinction of others.";
   - rapaciousness, predaciousness, predaceousness

Derived forms: rapacities

Type of: carnivorousness, deadly sin, gluttony, mortal sin, zoophagy

Encyclopedia: Rapacity