Definition: rapacity

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

rapacity
     n 1: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness,
           voracity, voraciousness]
     2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
        (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, greed,
         covetousness, avaritia]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Rapacity \Ra*pac"i*ty\, n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacite. See
   Rapacious.]
   1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
      ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of
      wolves.

   2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive
      injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. ``The rapacity
      of some ages.'' --Sprat.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) 

RAPACITY, n.  Providence without industry.  The thrift of power.