Emacity

Quick meaning: Emacity is a noun meaning Desire or fondness for buying.

Meaning

Desire or fondness for buying.

Example Sentences

He laughed at people who contracted habits of ‘emacity’ and found they must accumulate, and yet he confessed that he himself had a desire to collect pictures and for that purpose often attended auctions in Bath, where, in proportion to its extent, he thought there were more sales than in London.

But they had not as yet entirely resisted the energetic sellers’ ubiquitously busy hawking, having bought with a surrender to emacity disciplined in spite of excellent purchasing power and no worrisome creditors at their heels, two or more little inessential gauds and bouquet garni from one and the other boutiques and kiosks….

…in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought. ¶ So in matter of this literatorie chaffer, I…went on in my laudatives, to procure the greater longing, that an ardent desire might stir up an emacity, to the furtherance of my proposed end.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include desire, penchant, desirabilia, appetite, talent, dilection.

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