Rapacity
Rapacity (rȧ*pas"i*ty) , noun
[Latin rapacitas: compare French rapacité. See Rapacious.]
1.
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
2.
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
The rapacity of some ages.