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Noun: rapacity  ru'pa-si-tee
  1. Extreme gluttony
    - edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voracity, voraciousness
     
  2. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    - avarice, greed, covetousness, avaritia

Derived forms: rapacities

See also: rapacious

Type of: deadly sin, gluttony, mortal sin

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