About The Word Cupidity
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What's The Definition Of Cupidity?
[n] extreme greed for material wealth
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cupidity: avarice | avariciousness | covetousness Related Terms | Find terms related to Cupidity: acquisitiveness | avarice | avariciousness | avidity | avidness | covetousness | craving | desire | eagerness | frenzy of desire | fury of desire | gluttony | grasping | graspingness | greed | greediness | hoggishness | incontinence | infatuation | inordinate desire | insatiability | insatiable desire | intemperateness | itching palm | lust | overgreediness | passion | piggishness | possessiveness | rapaciousness | rapacity | ravenousness | sordidness | swinishness | voraciousness | voracity | wolfishness See Also | greed Cupidity In Webster's Dictionary \Cu*pid"i*ty\ (k?-p?d"?-t?), n. [F. cupidite, L.
cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long
for, desire. See {Covet}.]
1. A passionate desire; love. [Obs.]
2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed
of gain; avarice; covetousness.
With the feelings of political distrust were mingled
those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the
fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of
the accursed race of Ishmael. --Prescott.
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