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Greed

Greed Meaning & Definition
Greed Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Greed?

[n] reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
[n] excessive desire to acquire or possess more (esp material wealth) than one needs or deserves

Synonyms | Synonyms for Greed: avarice | avaritia | covetousness | rapacity

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | selfishness | selfism | self-jealousy | self-occupation | self-pleasing | self-seeking | self-serving | self-solicitude | self-sufficiency | sloth | sordidness | stinginess | superbia | swinish gluttony | swinishness | voraciousness | voracity | wolfishness | wrath | yearning

See Also | acquisitiveness | avarice | avariciousness | covetousness | cupidity | deadly sin | desire | mortal sin | possessiveness

Greed In Webster's Dictionary

\Greed\, n. [Akin to Goth. gr?dus hunger, Icel. gr[=a][eth]r. [root]34. See {Greedy.}] An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

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