rapacity — 영어 사전

명사

1. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

   용법

   • 가산
   • 불가산

   동의어

   rapaciousness

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.

   A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

명사

1. extreme gluttony

   동의어

   edacityesuriencerapaciousnessvoracityvoraciousness

   상위어

   gluttony

2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

   동의어

   avaricegreedcovetousnessavaritia

   상위어

   mortal sindeadly sin

3. (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey.

   동의어

   rapaciousnesspredaciousnesspredaceousness

   상위어

   zoophagycarnivorousness

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   The rapacity of carnivorous animals has been considered by some writers to have had a considerable effect on the distribution and even on the extinction of others.