acquisitiveness
noun
the grasping acquisitiveness of an affluent society:
greed, greediness, covetousness, cupidity, possessiveness, grasping, graspingness, grabbing, avarice, avidity, predatoriness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness, mercenariness, materialism;
informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing;
North American, informal grabbiness;
rare Mammonism.