Usually means: Desire to accumulate wealth, possessions.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word acquisitiveness:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquisitiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquisitiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquisitiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. acquisitiveness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Acquisitiveness, acquisitiveness: Wordnik
  6. acquisitiveness: Wiktionary
  7. Acquisitiveness, acquisitiveness: Dictionary.com
  8. Acquisitiveness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. acquisitiveness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. acquisitiveness: Rhymezone
  11. Acquisitiveness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. acquisitiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. acquisitiveness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. acquisitiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Acquisitiveness (Phrenology), acquisitiveness: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See acquisitive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acquisitiveness)

noun:  The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
noun:  (phrenology) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

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