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

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Etymology

Noun

covetousness (usually uncountable, plural covetousnesses)

Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.

Synonyms

• See also greed

Source: Wiktionary

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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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