COVETOUSNESS
avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
(noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity
(noun) extreme greed for material wealth
covetousness
(noun) an envious eagerness to possess something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
covetousness (usually uncountable, plural covetousnesses)
Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.
Synonyms
• See also greed
Source: Wiktionary
Cov"et*ous*ness, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak.
2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.
Syn.
– Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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