covetousness

1. n. Strong desire. Source: opted

2. n. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Source: opted

3. n. an envious eagerness to possess something Source: wordnet

4. n. extreme greed for material wealth Source: wordnet

5. n. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) Source: wordnet

6. 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

7. n:100 n. an envious eagerness to possess something Source: ecdict

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