noun
- Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins.
- synonyms: greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
- Extreme greed for material wealth.
- synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity
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