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covetousness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun covetousness has 3 senses
- covetousness(n = noun.feeling) Array - an envious eagerness to possess something; Array is a kind of enviousness, envy
- covetousness(n = noun.attribute) avarice, avariciousness, cupidity - extreme greed for material wealth; Array is a kind of greed
- covetousness(n = noun.act) avarice, avaritia, greed, rapacity - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); Array is a kind of deadly sin, mortal sin
Derived form adjective covetous1
Derived form adjective covetous2
CIDE DICTIONARY
covetousness, n.
- Strong desire. [1913 Webster]"When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness." [1913 Webster] - A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. [1913 Webster]"Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting."
Syn. -- Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
ROGET THESAURUS
covetousness
Greed
N greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous.
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