What does rapacity mean?
Rapacity means The quality of being rapacious; voracity..
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/ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/ · noun
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.
A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
Use rapacity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rapacity means The quality of being rapacious; voracity..
Common synonyms include avarice, covetise, covetousness, cupidity.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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