<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the quality of being rapacious, or given to seizing things for plunder: That the monastery was raided six times, and burned 26 times in between, shows the rapacity of the Vikings.</li><li>extreme greediness; predatory quality or character: People blamed the higher prices on the rapacity of businesses.</li><li>(of animals) the fact or characteristic of subsisting by the capture of living prey: The early settlers of America suffered from the severity of the climate and the rapacity of wolves.</li></ul>