ACQUISITIVENESS Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

acquisitiveness

noun

as in greed

an intense selfish desire for wealth or possessions the queen's acquisitiveness would not be satisfied until she owned the largest diamond in the world

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Recent Examples of acquisitiveness Many critics of such wanton cosmic acquisitiveness balk at the idea of scarcely regulated private-sector lunar strip-mining. —

Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026 Following too closely in its protagonist’s footsteps, The Queen of Versailles presents only two options — tough but spiritually fulfilling material deprivation or unconstrained acquisitiveness. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025

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greed

Noun

His fragile starman is a strange, complex being navigating his way through Earth’s obstacles, including love, lust, addiction, greed, and ambition in his plight to save his planet and survive the chaos caused by his arrival.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 May 2026
Crichton goes to a lot of effort to give plausible explanation to the harvesting and recombination of dinosaur DNA, and the mistakes that the involved human beings make are ones of ego, greed, and—more or less—neglecting to double-check their homework before turning it in.

— Ian Mackenzie, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026