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

covetousness \cov"etousness\, n.
   1. strong desire. r.
      1913 webster

            when workmen strive to do better than well,
            they do confound their skill in covetousness.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.    --sprat.

   syn: avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
        1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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

[3] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.
   

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