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

Remember the saying “Greed is good”? It could just as easily be “Cupidity is good,” though admittedly it doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same way. Cupidity means a burning desire to have more wealth than you need.

Though it sounds like it might have something to do with the little winged figure who shoots arrows and makes folks fall in love on Valentine’s Day, cupidity is all about the love of money. It comes to us from Latin cupidus, which means "desirous." It’s not a word that crops up a lot in conversation, though you might run across it in newspapers and magazines, particularly those blaming Wall Street’s unbridled cupidity for America’s economic woes.

VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT

Cause of Death: "Cupidity"

In a eulogy of sorts for the alternative weekly The New Haven Advocate, journalist Paul Bass used the often misleading cupidity when he wrote:

The cause of death was a changed media landscape combined with corporate cluelessness and cupidity.

Cupidity's a word that even the best of us get confused by, because we see cupid and blithely follow this Red Herring of a morphology clue. "Doesn't it have something to do with love?" we ask ourselves.

But, sadly for the romantics among us, there is no spicy love story to be had in the Advocate's demise. The word cupidity has nothing to do with love. Cupidity is a synonym for greed.

As with many misunderstandings (of the romantic nature at least), the fault lies with cupid. Cupid, the Greek God of love, infatuation, and romantic desire is a figure most of us have heard of. We've heard about Cupid's arrow, we've seen Valentine's Day iconography, we've sampled candy in the shape of this winged creature. So we assume we know enough about cupid and thus cupidity to get by. We don't look any closer.

If we did, we might find ourselves immersed in The Online Etymological Dictionary, where we learn that both cupid and cupidity descend from the Latin cupere which means "to desire." You desire a love object. You desire wealth. At some point you desire an understanding of the ways that word roots, like Cupid's arrows, are not always what they seem.

WORD FAMILY

cupidity: cupidities

USAGE EXAMPLES

To my immediate right, A blasting DVD With violent movie clips And gropers' cupidity.

New York Times(Aug 23, 2016)

The cupidity of the government and white real estate developers leaves working-class locals, women especially, with few options.

New York Times(Jun 29, 2016)

Cupidity and corruption perform, year after year, their reverse magic.

New York Times(Mar 10, 2016)

n extreme greed for material wealth

Syn|Hyper

avarice, avariciousness, covetousness

greed

excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

单词	cupidity
释义	cupidity (once / 3756 pages) n Remember the saying “Greed is good”? It could just as easily be “Cupidity is good,” though admittedly it doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same way. Cupidity means a burning desire to have more wealth than you need. Though it sounds like it might have something to do with the little winged figure who shoots arrows and makes folks fall in love on Valentine’s Day, cupidity is all about the love of money. It comes to us from Latin cupidus, which means "desirous." It’s not a word that crops up a lot in conversation, though you might run across it in newspapers and magazines, particularly those blaming Wall Street’s unbridled cupidity for America’s economic woes. VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT Cause of Death: "Cupidity" In a eulogy of sorts for the alternative weekly The New Haven Advocate, journalist Paul Bass used the often misleading cupidity when he wrote: The cause of death was a changed media landscape combined with corporate cluelessness and cupidity. Cupidity's a word that even the best of us get confused by, because we see cupid and blithely follow this Red Herring of a morphology clue. "Doesn't it have something to do with love?" we ask ourselves. But, sadly for the romantics among us, there is no spicy love story to be had in the Advocate's demise. The word cupidity has nothing to do with love. Cupidity is a synonym for greed. As with many misunderstandings (of the romantic nature at least), the fault lies with cupid. Cupid, the Greek God of love, infatuation, and romantic desire is a figure most of us have heard of. We've heard about Cupid's arrow, we've seen Valentine's Day iconography, we've sampled candy in the shape of this winged creature. So we assume we know enough about cupid and thus cupidity to get by. We don't look any closer. If we did, we might find ourselves immersed in The Online Etymological Dictionary, where we learn that both cupid and cupidity descend from the Latin cupere which means "to desire." You desire a love object. You desire wealth. At some point you desire an understanding of the ways that word roots, like Cupid's arrows, are not always what they seem. WORD FAMILY cupidity: cupidities USAGE EXAMPLES To my immediate right, A blasting DVD With violent movie clips And gropers' cupidity. New York Times(Aug 23, 2016) The cupidity of the government and white real estate developers leaves working-class locals, women especially, with few options. New York Times(Jun 29, 2016) Cupidity and corruption perform, year after year, their reverse magic. New York Times(Mar 10, 2016) n extreme greed for material wealth Syn\|Hyper avarice, avariciousness, covetousness greed excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
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