different between cupidity vs acquisive

English

From French cupidité, from Latin cupidit?s (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.

cupidity (countable and uncountable, plural cupidities)

Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the First, page 11 ?ISBN
  His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 784:
  It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.

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