ACQUISITIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquisitiveness mean? 

• ACQUISITIVENESS (noun)
  The noun ACQUISITIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. strong desire to acquire and possess

  Familiarity information: ACQUISITIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUISITIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strong desire to acquire and possess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("acquisitiveness" is a kind of...):

greed (excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves)

Attribute:

acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)

unacquisitive (not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acquisitiveness"):

bibliomania (preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books)

retentiveness; retentivity (the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired)

Derivation:

acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)