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Definition: Rapacity |
RapacityNoun1. Extreme gluttony. 2. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rapacity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Rapacity \Ra*pac"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression rapacitas: compare to the French expression rapacite. See Rapacious.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RapacitySynonyms: avarice (n), avaritia (n), covetousness (n), edacity (n), esurience (n), greed (n), rapaciousness (n), voraciousness (n), voracity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greed | Grasping, craving,grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity. |
Greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion. | |
Stealing | Thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves. |
Taking | Rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft;. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rapacity |
| Specialty definitions using "rapacity": Property. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Rapacity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rapacity" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "rapacity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pangopësi (debauchery, gluttony, insatiability, piggishness, voracity), koprraci (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, meanness, miserliness, money-grubbing, parsimony, stinginess), grykësi (gluttony, gourmand, voracity). (various references) | |
Arabic | نزع إلى السلب, طمع (avidity, cupidity, greed, itching palm, longing, lust for, pretentiousness, slaver over), ضرواة (ruthlessness, stubbornness), ضراوة (ferity, ferocity, fierceness, fury, predation), جشع (an itching palm, avarice, avaricious, avidity, cupidity, grasping, greed, greedy, mercenary, predatory, rapacious, ravening), شراهة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хищност, грабливост, алчност (avarice, avidity, cupidity, eagerness, mammon, miserliness). (various references) | |
Czech | dravost (ferocity, fierceness). (various references) | |
Farsi | یغماگری , غارتگری (Sack), از (Avarice, Avidity, By, Greed, In, Of, Soften), درنده خوءی . (various references) | |
Finnish | saaliinhimo (rapaciousness). (various references) | |
French | rapacité (rapaciousness, ravenousness), vampirisme, avidité. (various references) | |
German | Raubgier (ravenousness). (various references) | |
Greek | αρπακτικότητα (predacity, predatoriness, rapaciousness, ravening). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חמס ות (cruelty, oppression, robbery, usurpation, violence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kapzsiság (avarice, avidity, covetousness, greed, greediness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketamakan (cupidity, greed). (various references) | |
Italian | rapacit (ravenousness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apacityray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rapacidade. (various references) | |
Romanian | rapacitate (rapaciousness), lãcomie (covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, gourmandize, greed, hoggishness, hunger), aviditate (avidity, eagerness). (various references) | |
Russian | прожорливость (edacity, gluttony, greediness, voracity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pohlepnost (cupidity), grabljivost. (various references) | |
Spanish | rapacidad (ravenousness), avidez (avidity, greed, greediness, piggishness, ravenousness). (various references) | |
Swedish | rovgirighet, girighet (avarice, avariciousness, avidity, cupidity, greed, miserliness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความโล (avarice, rapaciousness). (various references) | |
Turkish | yırtıcılık (rapaciousness), hasislik (meanness, rapaciousness, stinginess), hırs (ambition, anger, avidity, cupidity, desire, fire, forwardness, glow, greed, greediness, mammon, mettle, passion, rage, rapaciousness, voracity), gözü doymama (rapaciousness), açgözlülük (avarice, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, greed, greediness, insatiability, rapaciousness, voracity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ненажерливість (edacity, greediness, swallow, voracity), жадібність (avarice, avidity, bulimy, covetousness, cupidity, edacity, greediness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính tham lạm (rapaciousness), tính ph m ăn (gormandise, gormandize, piggishness, rapaciousness), sự tham t n tính tham ăn (rapaciousness). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhaib (greed, spell). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | avaritia, avaritiae, avaritiam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Rapacity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: predacity, Rabochiy, racapity, rapacite, Rapacki. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "rapacity" (pronounced 'Ra*pac"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: apiary, atypic, capita, parity, picara, piracy, piraya. | |
-3 letters: acari, apart, atria, atrip, carat, carpi, crypt, party, pricy, pyric, riata, tapir, tiara, triac, typic. | |
-4 letters: acta, airt, airy, aria, arty, atap, carp, cart, city, crap, paca, pact, pair, para, part, paty, pica, pita, pity, prat, pray, pyic, racy, raia, rapt, raya, tapa, tarp, trap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: paralytic. | |
+2 letters: antipiracy, capitulary, paralytics, patriarchy. | |
+3 letters: applicatory, capillarity, cardiopathy, coplanarity, parfocality, piratically, practicably, practically. | |
+4 letters: anticipatory, appreciatory, archetypical, intracompany, operatically, overcapacity, pantisocracy, particularly, practicality. | |
+5 letters: astrophysical, bacteriophagy, comparability, comparatively, cryptanalysis, cryptanalytic, impracticably, impractically, paralytically, parasitically, parasynthetic, participatory, participially, particularity, patriotically, postcranially, pragmatically, precautionary, prismatically, puritanically, sympatrically, typographical, ultraphysical. | |
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