Covet vs Greed - What's the difference?

As a verb covet

is to wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

(en verb)

To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

To yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession.

* covetable * coveter * covetingly * covetous * covetousness

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A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

His greed was his undoing.

What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.

* (selfish desire for more than is needed) avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity * See also * (desire for food) gluttony