cupidity

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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 [kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ]

strong desire, esp for possessions or money; greed

[from Latin cupiditās, from cupidus eagerly desiring, from cupere to long for]

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Noun

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

cupidity

noun (Formal) avarice, greed, acquisitiveness, rapacity, covetousness, avidity, greediness, rapaciousness the well-known cupidity and greed of politicians

Translations

cupidity [kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] N (frm) → codicia f

cupidity [kjuːˈpɪdɪti] n (= avarice) → cupidité f
Cupid's arrow n (fig) (= love) → flèche f de Cupidon
Cupid's bow n [lips] → bouche f en cœur

cupidity

n (liter) → Begierde f (pej), → Gier f (pej)

cupidity [kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] n → cupidigia

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avarice
avariciousness
covet
covetous
covetousness
Cupid
desire
envious
greed
jealous
lust
rapacity

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.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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.

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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