An envious eagerness to possess something.

Extreme greed for material wealth.

synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, cupidity.

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

synonyms: avarice, avaritia, 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

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