COVETOUSNESS

• (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

  synonyms : avarice , avaritia , greed , rapacity

  What is strange is that he doesn't even bother to hide his avarice. -added by geeta_inlas

• (noun) extreme greed for material wealth

  synonyms : avarice , avariciousness , cupidity

  How can you be so completely blind to his avarice? It oozes out of his being. -added by geeta_inlas

  The king had to pay a huge prize for his acts of cupidity. -added by Aswathy_inlas

• (noun) an envious eagerness to possess something

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