acquisitiveness
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
- Dérivé de acquisitive, avec le suffixe -ness.
Nom commun modifier
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| acquisitiveness \Prononciation ?\ |
acquisitivenesses \Prononciation ?\ |
acquisitiveness \Prononciation ?\
- Avidité, propension à acquérir, à posséder.
- If we win this war and have the Cotton Kingdom of our dreams, we still have lost, for we will become a different people and the old quiet ways will go. The world will be at our doors clamoring for cotton and we can command our own price. Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer. — (Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1939)
Prononciation modifier
- Texas (États-Unis) : écouter « acquisitiveness [Prononciation ?] »