graspings
Acts of clutching
Graspings are acts of seizing or clutching, either physical or metaphorical.
The word often carries negative connotations of greedy reaching: His graspings for power alienated former allies.
It can also describe mental efforts to comprehend: her desperate graspings at an explanation.
Excessive accumulation of goods
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
cupidity · rapacity · voracity · insatiability · possessiveness · accumulating · amassing · clutching
Holding tightly onto
- flailingUncontrolled limb movement
- scrabblingFrantic scratching or groping
- clawingScraping with hooked nails
- scramblingMoving clumsily in haste
panic · drowning · suffocating · struggling · frantic · frenzied · helpless · overwhelmed
Forcible taking of goods
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- usurpingSeizing without authority
- extortingObtaining through threats
- monopolizingTaking exclusive control
profiteering · swindling · gouging · embezzling · pilfering · snatching · seizing · grabbing
State of awaiting something
- enthusiasmIntense eager enjoyment
- keennessSharpness of perception
- zealIntense driving devotion
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
avidity · excitement · impatience · yearning · longing · desire · hunger · thirst
hoarding
Excessive accumulation of goods
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
materialism · cupidity · rapacity · voracity · insatiability · possessiveness · accumulating · amassing · clutching · clinging
clutching
Holding tightly onto
- flailingUncontrolled limb movement
- scrabblingFrantic scratching or groping
- clawingScraping with hooked nails
scrambling · panic · drowning · suffocating · struggling · frantic · frenzied · helpless · overwhelmed · desperate
plundering
Forcible taking of goods
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- usurpingSeizing without authority
- extortingObtaining through threats
monopolizing · profiteering · swindling · gouging · embezzling · pilfering · snatching · seizing · grabbing · appropriating
anticipation
State of awaiting something
- enthusiasmIntense eager enjoyment
- keennessSharpness of perception
- zealIntense driving devotion
ardor · avidity · excitement · impatience · yearning · longing · desire · hunger · thirst · fervor
graspingsreleases
Lets go or publishes
droppings · relinquishments · surrenderings · freeing · unhanding
graspingsmisunderstandings
Failures to grasp meaning
confusions · bewilderments · bafflements · mystifications · perplexities
graspingsrelinquishments
Acts of surrendering control
surrenderings · givings · renunciations · abandonments · releases
- grasping at strawsDesperate last-ditch efforts
- grasping for strawsSeeking unlikely solutions
- grasping the nettleConfronting difficulty directly
- grasping handsHands actively seizing something