acquisitiveness
Hunger for possessions
Acquisitiveness is the drive to acquire and accumulate possessions or wealth.
The word carries a slightly negative connotation, suggesting excessive or greedy desire for material things rather than healthy ambition: His acquisitiveness knew no bounds—he bought three more houses he didn't need.
The trait appears in discussions of consumer culture, capitalism, and human nature.
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
- graspingnessExcessive desire to acquire
voracity · cupidity · selfishness · rapaciousness · possessiveness · grabbiness · mercenariness · mammonism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- possessivenessExcessive attachment to ownership
- status-seekingPursuing higher position
- keeping up with the JonesesStriving to match neighbors' lifestyle
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
accumulation · commodity fetishism · conspicuous consumption · retail therapy · collecting · affluenza · wealth accumulation
Powerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- covetingDesiring what's another's
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- appetiteDesire for food
hunger · yearning · eagerness · wanting · covetous · desirous · grasping · aspiring
Accumulating supplies in quantity
- accumulatingGathering in increasing quantity
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- collectingGathering items over time
- stashingConcealing for safekeeping
squirreling · gathering · piling · aggregating · caching · storing · compiling · accruing
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
graspingness · voracity · cupidity · selfishness · rapaciousness · possessiveness · grabbiness · mercenariness · mammonism · money-grubbing
consumerism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- possessivenessExcessive attachment to ownership
- status-seekingPursuing higher position
- keeping up with the JonesesStriving to match neighbors' lifestyle
shopping · accumulation · commodity fetishism · conspicuous consumption · retail therapy · collecting · affluenza · wealth accumulation
craving
Powerful urge to have
appetite · hunger · yearning · eagerness · wanting · covetous · desirous · grasping · aspiring · itching
stockpiling
Accumulating supplies in quantity
- accumulatingGathering in increasing quantity
- amassingCollecting in quantity
- collectingGathering items over time
stashing · squirreling · gathering · piling · aggregating · caching · storing · compiling · accruing · heaping
- consumerismconsumerism, consumers, consumer, shopping, buying
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- selfishnessselfishness, greed, egoism, narcissism, self-centeredness
- money mindsetsfrugal, thrifty, generous, stingy, greedy
- phrenologycraniology, adhesiveness, benevolence, cautiousness, combativeness
- desireswant, wish, desire, wanting, yearning
acquisitivenessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · openhandedness · magnanimity · largesse · generousness
acquisitivenesscontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · fulfillment · fulfilment · contentedness · gratification
acquisitivenessaltruism
Prioritizing others' wellbeing
selflessness · unselfishness · generosity · benevolence · openheartedness
require, conquer, acquire, exquisite, inquire, requiring, acquired, conqueror, acquisition