Definition of "grasping" []

• Exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As for cognition of the impure appearances of seemingly true existence, the term grasping for true existence (bden-par grub-pa) has two meanings."
• "One thing that movement conservatives have a hard time grasping is that so-called “characterological conservatives” do not necessarily (or even frequently) have any interest or anything in common with “conservatism” as an ideological movement."
• "Part of the difficulty in grasping the morality of this novel lies in the fact that Julia Glass gives very little indication as to what we are supposed to think."