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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. strong desire to acquire and possess; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Acquisitiveness \Ac*quis"i*tive*ness\, n.
   1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire
      property; desire of possession.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute
      the desire of acquiring and possessing. --Combe.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acquisitiveness
    n 1: strong desire to acquire and possess