emacity means Desire or fondness for buying Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EMACITY — [Noun] A fervent desire for the act of purchase itself, a cultivated fondness for spending. From the Latin emācitas, from emere ("to buy") and the noun-forming suffix -itas. Unlike "acquisitiveness" (a general hunger to possess, indifferent to provenance) or "oniomania" (a clinical compulsion that erodes the self), emacity is the deliberate pleasure of the transaction. It is the crisp rustle of a new paper bag, the anticipatory chime of a card machine, and the precisely weighted heft of a handled box—a small, repeated ceremony that mistakes possession for a kind of becoming.
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- Desire or fondness for buying“…in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought. ¶ So in matter of this literatorie chaffer, I…went on in my laudatives, to procure the greater longing, that an ardent desire might stir up an emacity, to ”