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Acquisitiveness   Listen
noun
Acquisitiveness  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.





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"Acquisitiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... invasion did render us. The Australian light horseman has the bump of acquisitiveness even better developed than the Lowland infantryman, and having a horse on which he can hang his trophies he can give this penchant greater scope. But when he is going into action—or believes himself to be—he ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison


Words linked to "Acquisitiveness" :   bibliomania, retentiveness, greed, acquisitive, unacquisitive


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