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avaricious | greediness |

As an adjective avaricious

is actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate|accumulating property.

As a noun greediness is

the state of being greedy; greed.

avaricious

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Alternative forms

* avaritious (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate, accumulating property.
  • * Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)
    • In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious , rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...

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    Derived terms

    * avariciously * avariciousness

    Related terms

    * avarice

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    greediness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being greedy; greed.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:Thereto the body of a dog she had, / Full of fell ravin and fierce greedinesse […].

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