Ac‐quis″i‐tive‐ness, n. 1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.