Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
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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