Acquisitiveness
- n. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
- n. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.