Extreme gluttony.

synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity.

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny^†, direption^†; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism^†; latrocinium^†.    spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage^†; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^†, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.    piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.    filibustering, filibusterism^†; burglary; housebreaking; badger game [Slang].    robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.    peculation, embezzlement; fraud etc. 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting.    thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia^†, den of Cacus, den of thieves.    blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].    [person who commits theft] thief etc. 792.    ... show more

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; reception etc. (taking in) 296; deglutition etc. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation^†; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension^†; abreption^†, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal etc. 38; abstraction, ademption^†; adrolepsy^†.    dispossession; deprivation, deprivement^†; bereavement; divestment; disherison^†; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction etc. 297.    rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft etc. 791.    resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery etc. 775.    clutch, swoop, wrench; grip etc. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch; scramble.    taker, captor.    [Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].    ... show more

Dutch: rooflust, roofzucht

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

synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed.

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