COVETOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Synonyms:

avarice; avaritia; covetousness; greed; rapacity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("covetousness" is a kind of...):

deadly sin; mortal sin (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace)

Derivation:

covetous (immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth)

Meaning:

Extreme greed for material wealth

Synonyms:

avarice; avariciousness; covetousness; cupidity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("covetousness" is a kind of...):

greed (excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves)

Derivation:

covetous (showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages)

Meaning:

An envious eagerness to possess something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("covetousness" is a kind of...):

enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)