definition of the word acquisitiveness

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acquisitiveness

  1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
  2. (phrenology) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

“acquisitiveness” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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