Meaning of GREED
| Pronunciation: | | greed
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- [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
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GREED is a 5 letter word that starts with G. |
| | Synonyms: | | avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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| | See Also: | | acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, mortal sin, possessiveness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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