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Acquisitiveness is an English word with synonyms like greed. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Acquisitiveness meaning

  1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
  2. The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

Synonyms of Acquisitiveness

greed

Related words

Other words often associated with Acquisitiveness or its synonyms:

desire covetousness avarice rapacity

Using Acquisitiveness

  • The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession. | The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
  • Useful related words include: greed.

Context around Acquisitiveness

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

traditional 1× enough 1×

Often after:

towards 1×

Sentence patterns with Acquisitiveness

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a traditional acquisitiveness towards greenland 1× materialism and acquisitiveness in order 1× with enough acquisitiveness to go 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

anderson acknowledges a 1× by the standards 1× these reforms were 1×

Common sentence endings:

natural resource wealth 1× pursuit of money 1× stimulate economic growth 1×

Words around Acquisitiveness

Just before it in the word index:

acquisitively 2 acquisitive 23 acquisitions 656 acquisition 2.357 acquisit 2 acquis 4

Just after it in the word index:

acquisto 2 acquit 72 acquits 7 acquittal 157 acquittals 18 acquitted 537

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaai 6 aani 6 aarne 6 aarya 6 aasb 6 aasen 6

Corpus analysis for Acquisitiveness

  • In this selection, "acquisitiveness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, traditional, enough and towards stand out and add context to how "acquisitiveness" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a traditional acquisitiveness towards greenland and materialism and acquisitiveness in order. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "acquisitiveness" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with acquisitiveness

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

These reforms were promoted to encourage materialism and acquisitiveness in order to stimulate economic growth. (15 words)

Anderson acknowledges a traditional acquisitiveness towards Greenland, being a gem of mineral and natural resource wealth. (16 words)

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money. (28 words)

Longer example sentences

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money. (28 words)

Anderson acknowledges a traditional acquisitiveness towards Greenland, being a gem of mineral and natural resource wealth. (16 words)

These reforms were promoted to encourage materialism and acquisitiveness in order to stimulate economic growth. (15 words)

Example sentences (3)

Anderson acknowledges a traditional acquisitiveness towards Greenland, being a gem of mineral and natural resource wealth.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money.

These reforms were promoted to encourage materialism and acquisitiveness in order to stimulate economic growth.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "acquisitiveness" in a sentence?
An example: "Anderson acknowledges a traditional acquisitiveness towards Greenland, being a gem of mineral and natural resource wealth." This page contains 3 example sentences with the word "acquisitiveness" from authentic English texts.
What does "acquisitiveness" mean?
Acquisitiveness means: The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
What are synonyms of "acquisitiveness"?
Common synonyms of "acquisitiveness" include: greed.
How many example sentences with "acquisitiveness" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 3 example sentences with "acquisitiveness", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.