1. (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

2. (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

acquisitiveness avarice avariciousness avidity avidness claim covetousness crapulence crapulency cupidity demand edacity exaction frenzy of desire fury of desire gluttonousness gluttony grasping graspingness greed greediness gulosity hoggishness hyperphagia incontinence inordinate desire insatiability insatiable desire intemperance intemperateness itching palm looting lust omnivorousness overeating overgreediness overindulgence piggishness pillaging polyphagia predacity rapaciousness ravenousness sharkishness sordidness swinish gluttony swinishness voraciousness voracity wolfishness