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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
greed \greed\ gr=ed", n. akin to goth. gr=edus hunger,
icel. gr=aethr. root34. see greedy.
an eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
1913 webster
see also:
greedy.
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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, covetousness,
rapacity, avaritia
see also:
avarice covetousness rapacity avaritia
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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