Excessive eagerness or longing for wealth or gain; covetousness, avarice, rapacity, greed.

Greediness.

coveting, covetousness.

spec. Inordinate or excessive desire for the acquisition and possession of wealth, etc.; esp. of possessing what belongs to another; = covetousness…

The action of covet, v.

Disposition to get gain; covetousness.

Eager or vehement desire; in theological use (transl. ἐπιθυμία in the New Testament) the coveting of ‘carnal things’, desire for the ‘things of the…

Inordinate desire of acquiring and hoarding wealth; greediness of gain, cupidity.

figurative. greedy worm (cf. sense 13): avarice or greediness as an itching passion in the heart. Obsolete.

spec. Inordinate desire to appropriate wealth or possessions; greed of gain.

Inordinate and culpable desire of possessing that which belongs to another or to which one has no right.

The quality of being avaricious; greediness of wealth.

Inordinate or insatiate longing, esp. for wealth; avaricious or covetous desire. Const. of.

figurative. That has an irritating desire or uneasy craving.

Covetousness, possessiveness.

= avariciousness, n.

The fact of being individual; separateness of the self; (esp. in Indian philosophy) personal interest in or attachment to something. Also: the fact…

elliptical. Greediness of gain, graspingness, avarice.

greed, avarice.

The fact or quality of being accumulative; cumulative nature; acquisitiveness.

The quality or condition of being acquisitive; spec. †one of the ‘faculties’ to which phrenologists assigned a special ‘organ’ or region of the…

Excessive covetousness, avarice, or greed.

The quality of being possessive, esp. with regard to another person.

Excessive greed.

Appropriative quality; tendency to take as one's own.