[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

avarice \av"arice\ a^v".ari^s, n. f. avaritia, fr.
   avarus avaricious, prob. fr. av=ere to covet, fr. a root av
   to satiate one's self: cf. gr. 'a`menai, 'a^sai, to satiate,
   skr. av to satiate one's self, rejoice, protect.
   1. an excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness for
      wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
      1913 webster

            to desire money for its own sake, and in order to
            hoard it up, is avarice.              --beattie.
      1913 webster

   2. an inordinate desire for some supposed good.
      1913 webster

            all are taught an avarice of praise.  --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

avarice
     n 1: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
          personified as one of the deadly sins syn: greed, covetousness,
           rapacity, avaritia
     2: extreme greed for material wealth syn: avariciousness, covetousness,
         cupidity
see also:
greed covetousness rapacity avaritia avariciousness cupidity 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

68 moby thesaurus words for "avarice":
   acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity,
   avidness, cheapness, closefistedness, closeness, covetousness,
   craving, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, envy, frenzy of desire,
   frugality, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed,
   greediness, gula, hardfistedness, hoarding, hoggishness,
   illiberality, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability,
   insatiable desire, intemperateness, invidia, ira, itching palm,
   lust, luxuria, meanness, miserliness, nearness, niggardliness,
   overgreediness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching,
   penuriousness, piggishness, pride, rapaciousness, rapacity,
   ravenousness, selfishness, sloth, sordidness, stinginess, superbia,
   swinishness, thrift, tight purse strings, tightfistedness,
   tightness, ungenerosity, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness,
   wrath

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