acquisitiveness

Acquisitiveness also large; this gentleman believes in getting the full value for his money.

Those qualities were greed and persistence in acquisitiveness, cunning and subtlety, also bragging and self-assertiveness.

Her delicately curved lips were free from the grim lines of concentrated acquisitiveness.

Her venality, he began to see, was merely the instinctive acquisitiveness of the savage, the greed of the petted child.

He puts acquisitiveness first and right and sterling honesty and unselfishness second.