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cupidity

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cu·pid·i·ty  (ky-pd-t)
n.
Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
[Middle English cupidite, from Old French, from Latin cupidits, from cupidus, desiring, from cupere, to desire.]
cupidity [kew-pid-it-ee]
Noun
Formal strong desire for wealth or possessions [Latin cupere to long for]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cupidity - extreme greed for material wealth
avariciousness, covetousness, avarice
greed - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
Translations
cupidity [kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] n → cupidité f
cupidity [kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] n → Begierde f, Gier f
cupidity [kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] n → cupidigia


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Have there not been as many wars founded upon commercial motives since that has become the prevailing system of nations, as were before occasioned by the cupidity of territory or dominion?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
And I could not imagine a human being so blinded by cupidity as to sell poison to such an atrocious creature.
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His keen eye still played with facility in its deep-sunk orbit; and fat, which levels all the characteristic saliences of the human face, had not yet touched either his high cheek-bones, the sign of cunning and cupidity, or his pointed chin, the sign of acuteness and perseverance.
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