avarice
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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain,
/ˈavəris/,
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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain,
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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Web Definitions:
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- extreme greed for material wealth
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- Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity; Inordinate desire for some supposed good
- (n.) excessive greed (The banker’s avarice led him to amass an enormous personal fortune.)
- Uncontrolled desire for wealth.