Definition of "acquisitiveness" []

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

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• "We might study if acquisitiveness is a characteristic that shows variation due to genetics across population groups."
• "The demand of the belly-need is too strong; the friction too great: individuality is repressed, forced to manifest itself in acquisitiveness and selfishness."
• "But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power."