英语词汇“avarice”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

avarice

/ˈav(ə)rɪs

noun [mass noun]

Extreme greed for wealth or material gain: he was rich beyond the dreams of avarice...

Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva.
The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up.
In a time when avarice and greed is epidemic, why is a belief system that targets desire and possessions as the cause of unhappiness drawing hundreds of new followers each year?

Synonyms

greed, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness, graspingness, materialism, mercenariness;

meanness, miserliness

informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing, an itching palm

North American informal grabbiness

rare Mammonism, pleonexia

Middle English: from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus 'greedy'.

单词	avarice
释义	avarice /ˈav(ə)rɪs / noun [mass noun] Extreme greed for wealth or material gain: he was rich beyond the dreams of avarice... Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva. The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up. In a time when avarice and greed is epidemic, why is a belief system that targets desire and possessions as the cause of unhappiness drawing hundreds of new followers each year? Synonyms greed, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness, graspingness, materialism, mercenariness; meanness, miserliness informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing, an itching palm North American informal grabbiness rare Mammonism, pleonexia Origin Middle English: from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus 'greedy'.
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