Usage examples (34)

• The demand of the belly-need is too strong; the friction too great: individuality is repressed, forced to manifest itself in acquisitiveness and selfishness.
• But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power.
• They spring straight from the acquisitiveness which is a universal characteristic of human nature and indeed of animal and vegetable nature.
• Dexter Allison is no doubt an estimable man in many ways, even though, as you feel positive, he has a tendency to acquisitiveness which is deplorable.