rapacity

noun

Etymology: From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.

1. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

   “Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.”

   “A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.”