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COVETOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
Sense 3
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)
