English Explanatory Dictionary

acquisitiveness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
  2. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

acquisitiveness acquisitivenesses

Etymology

From acquisitive + -ness.

Derived words

nonacquisitiveness
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