greed

greed
    n 1: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially
         more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
    2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
       (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {avarice},
       {greed}, {covetousness}, {rapacity}, {avaritia}]
    

Greed \Greed\ (gr[=e]d"), n. [Akin to Goth. gr[=e]dus hunger,
   Icel. gr[=a][eth]r. [root]34. See {Greedy.}]
   An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
   [1913 Webster]
    

99 Moby Thesaurus words for "greed":
      acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, autism, avarice, avariciousness,
      avaritia, avidity, avidness, careerism, covetousness, crapulence,
      crapulency, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, edacity, ego trip,
      egotism, envy, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness,
      gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greediness, gula, gulosity,
      hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, individualism,
      inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance,
      intemperateness, interest, invidia, ira, itching palm, lust,
      luxuria, meanness, miserliness, narcissism, niggardliness,
      omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence,
      parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, personal aims,
      personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, piggishness,
      polyphagia, possessiveness, pride, privatism, rapaciousness,
      rapacity, ravenousness, remoteness, self-absorption,
      self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness,
      self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem,
      self-indulgence, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy,
      self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving,
      self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, sloth,
      sordidness, stinginess, superbia, swinish gluttony, swinishness,
      voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, wrath, yearning