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rapaciousness

rapaciousness noun: the state of being rapacious; extreme gluttony.

Noun

rapaciousness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being rapacious; extreme gluttony.
    • THE VULTURE MAY be the most maligned bird on the planet, a living metaphor for greed and rapaciousness.2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01...

rapaciousness meaning in Kannada

rapaciousness in Kannada

ಲೋಭಿತನ, ಕ್ರೂರತನ, ಘಾತುಕತನ

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Origin of rapaciousness

From rapacious + -ness.

Questions about rapaciousness

What does rapaciousness mean?
Rapaciousness means the state of being rapacious; extreme gluttony.
What is rapaciousness in Kannada?
Rapaciousness in Kannada is ಲೋಭಿತನ, ಕ್ರೂರತನ, ಘಾತುಕತನ. See Rapaciousness meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is rapaciousness?
Rapaciousness is a noun.

Words near rapaciousness in the dictionary

  1. rapability
  2. rapable
  3. rapaceous
  4. rapacious
  5. rapaciously
  6. rapaciousness
  7. rapacities
  8. rapacity
  9. rapacuronium
  10. RAPADILINO
  11. rapakivi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapaciousness (page history and authors); rapaciousness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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