"rapacity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rapacity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rapacities [plural]
Rhymes: -æsɪti Etymology: rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|rapacious|ity|alt1=rapac(ious)}} rapac(ious) + -ity, {{der|en|frm|rapacité}} Middle French rapacité, {{der|en|la|rapacitas}} Latin rapacitas Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)
  1. The quality of being rapacious; voracity. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (greed): алчност (alčnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ненаситност (nenasitnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), rapacité [feminine] (French), αρπακτικότητα (arpaktikótita) [feminine] (Greek), hesûdî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), rapacitate [feminine] (Romanian), girighet [common-gender] (Swedish), rovgirighet [common-gender] (Swedish), жадібність (žadibnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), загребущість (zahrebuščistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-rapacity-en-noun-9Qc4RK9I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity

Inflected forms

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