covetousness

covetousness
    n 1: an envious eagerness to possess something
    2: extreme greed for material wealth [syn: {avarice},
       {avariciousness}, {covetousness}, {cupidity}]
    3: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
       (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {avarice},
       {greed}, {covetousness}, {rapacity}, {avaritia}]
    

Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
   1. Strong desire. [R.]
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            When workmen strive to do better than well,
            They do confound their skill in covetousness.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing
      some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
      -- in a bad sense.
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            Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess
            itself of the true end of getting.    --Sprat.

   Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
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Covetousness
a strong desire after the possession of worldly things (Col.
3:5; Eph. 5:5; Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10; Matt. 6:20). It
assumes sometimes the more aggravated form of avarice, which is
the mark of cold-hearted worldliness.