rapacity
Syllables: ra·pa·ci·ty/ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/
rapacity noun: the quality of being rapacious; voracity.
Noun
rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)
- The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
- Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Hare Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume IV, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse...
- A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 212
- Synonyms:
- rapaciousness, avarice, covetise, covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, greed, greediness, Mammon, ravin
rapacity meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
rapacity in Bengali
- তীব্র লোভ, লুণ্ঠনপ্রিয়তা
rapacity in Malayalam
- അത്യാർത്തി, ദുർമോഹം, അത്യാഗ്രഹം
rapacity in Kannada
- ದುರಾಸೆ, ಸುಲಿಗೆಯ ಸ್ವಭಾವ
Synonyms of rapacity
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Forms of rapacity
| plural | rapacities |
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Origin of rapacity
From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité (whence -acity, from Latin rapācitās, from rapāx, from rapiō (“snatch, grab, carry off”).
Words that rhyme with rapacity
Questions about rapacity
- What does rapacity mean?
- Rapacity means the quality of being rapacious; voracity.
- What is rapacity in Bengali?
- Rapacity in Bengali is তীব্র লোভ, লুণ্ঠনপ্রিয়তা. See Rapacity meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is rapacity?
- Rapacity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rapacity?
- Rapacity is pronounced /ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/.
- What is the plural of rapacity?
- The plural of rapacity is rapacities.
Words near rapacity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapacity (page history and authors); rapacity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapacity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapacity (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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