acquisitiveness

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

   “Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate, by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest of beauty, and the aspirations that were [its] guide.”

2. isim The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.