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covetousness

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun covetousness has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

covetousnessn. 
  •  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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