Avaricious vs Materialistic - What's the difference?
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Actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate, accumulating property.
* Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
* Charles Kingsley
As adjectives the difference between avaricious and materialistic
is that avaricious is actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property while materialistic is being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.avaricious
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Alternative forms
* avaritious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious , rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* avariciously * avariciousnessReferences
*materialistic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
