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5 days ago · If you've got the characteristic of acquisitiveness, you really like money and the things it can buy. Your acquisitiveness might get you into trouble if you don't have a huge salary.
5 days ago · Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries. The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry.
4 days ago · The distinction lies in engaging in trade to meet legitimate needs, where natural limits would be reached, versus conducting business to acquire money itself, in an ever-expanding quest for more. Desire itself has “no limit of the end” and if indulged without restraint would lead to lifelong enslavement to acquisitiveness (Pol. I:1257).
2 days ago · noun. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity. see more.
2 days ago · They are all subconscious acquisitiveness triggers. When we read them – at the top of an email, on a website, in a magazine, or a shop window – they stimulate some kind of automatic response in the lizard brain that immediately makes you alert to the idea that you might be missing out on something.
5 days ago · The partial market economy of NEP afforded modernists considerable opportunities but, for the most part, they condemned it as a backward step into the old world of acquisitiveness and class division. One obvious manifestation of this backsliding was the resurgence of consumerism, as the meager comforts of NEP replaced the privations of the preceding years.
1 day ago · Greedy, greedier, greediest. Greed can be harnessed to serve social ends. It can spur entrepreneurial innovation, leading to broad prosperity. It is society that channels greed for such constructive purposes. And it is society that decrees how much greed is enough and how we define where, say, healthy ambition ends and unsavoury self-interest ...
