Ambition vs Avarice - What's the difference?
ambition | avarice |
(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
* Burke
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
* Milton
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
As nouns the difference between ambition and avarice
is that ambition is eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people while avarice is excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.As a verb ambition
is to seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.ambition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Quotations
(English Citations of "ambition")Verb
(en verb)- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
