Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).

synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity.

Roget 817a: covetousness, ravenousness etc. adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775; desire etc. 865.    [greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion.    selfishness etc. 943; auri sacra fames [Lat.].    grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.    ... show more

Roget 957: gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness etc. adj.; voracity.    epicurism; good living, high living; edacity^†, gulosity^†, crapulence^†; guttling^†, guzzling; pantophagy^†.    good cheer, blow out; feast etc. (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de cuisine [Fr.].    epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius^†, gastronome; gourmet etc. 954.1, 868.    v.. gormandize, gorge; overgorge^†, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle^†, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp etc. (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home.    have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork etc. (appetite) 865.    pamper.    ... show more

Roget 819: parsimony, parcity^†; parsimoniousness^†, stinginess etc. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.    avarice, greed etc. 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^†, scrimp, lickpenny^†, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.    ... show more

Dutch: hebzuchtigheid, inhaligheid, schraapzuchtigheid, schraapzucht, hebberigheid, hebzucht

Extreme greed for material wealth.

synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity.