graspingness

  • 11grasping — adjective Date: 1710 desiring material possessions urgently and excessively and often to the point of ruthlessness Synonyms: see covetous • graspingly adverb • graspingness noun …

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  • 12grasping — graspingly, adv. graspingness, n. /gras ping, grahs /, adj. 1. greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man. 2. being used to grasp or tending to grasp; tenacious. [1540 50; GRASP + ING2] Syn. 1. covetous, selfish, acquisitive, venal. * * * …

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  • 13autism — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, airy nothing, alienation, anesthesia, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, bashfulness, blame shifting, bubble, careerism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, chimera, cold blood, cold heart,… …

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  • 14avarice — Synonyms and related words: acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, cheapness, closefistedness, closeness, covetousness, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, envy, frenzy of desire, frugality, fury of desire …

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  • 15avidity — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, avarice, avariciousness, avidness, breathless impatience, cheerful readiness, covetousness, cupidity, eagerness, elan, forwardness, frenzy of desire …

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  • 16cupidity — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, craving, desire, eagerness, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, hoggishness, incontinence,… …

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  • 17ego trip — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, amour propre, autism, autoeroticism, boast, careerism, complacency, consequentiality, egotism, fish for compliments, graspingness, greed, have no self doubt, individualism, interest, know it all,… …

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  • 18egotism — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, arrogance, autism, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, careerism, conceit, conceitedness, contempt, ego, ego trip, egocentricity, egocentrism, egoism, egoisticalness, egotisticalness, gasconade,… …

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  • 19gluttony — Synonyms and related words: abandon, acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, appetite, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, boundlessness, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, covetousness,… …

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  • 20grasping — Synonyms and related words: a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, all devouring, all engulfing, ambitious for self, autistic, avarice, avaricious, avariciousness, avid, avidity, avidness, bloodsucking, bottomless, careerist, clamant …

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