NOUN | feeling | covetousness | an envious eagerness to possess something |
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attribute | covetousness, avarice, avariciousness, cupidity | extreme / extreme greed for material wealth | |
act | covetousness, avarice, greed, rapacity, avaritia | reprehensible acquisitiveness |
Meaning | An envious eagerness to possess something. | |
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Broader | envy, enviousness | A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another |
Spanish | codicia | |
Catalan | cobdícia |
Meaning | extreme / extreme greed for material wealth. | |
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Synonyms | avarice, avariciousness, cupidity | |
Broader | greed | excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves |
Spanish | avaricia, codicia | |
Catalan | avarícia | |
Adjectives | covetous | showing extreme / extreme cupidity |
Meaning | reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins). | |
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Synonyms | avarice, greed, rapacity, avaritia | |
Broader | mortal sin, deadly sin | An unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace |
Spanish | avaricia, avaritia, avidez, codicia, concupiscencia, rapacidad | |
Catalan | avarícia, avaritia, cobdícia | |
Adjectives | covetous | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth |
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