Noun

(cupidities)

Extreme greed, especially for wealth.

* 1857 , , Volume the First, page 11 (ISBN 1857150570)

His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity .

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* 1956 , , The City and the Stars , p 37

Humanity had always been fascinated by the mystery of the falling dice, the turn of a card, the spin of the pointer. At its lowest level, this interest was based on mere cupidity —and that was an emotion that could have no place in a world where everyone possessed all that they could reasonably need.

* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 784:

It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.

Noun

(en noun)

A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.

(Francis Bacon)

Something that has no force or meaning.

(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .

One of the beads in nulled work.

(statistics) null hypothesis