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Earnestness vs Greediness - What's the difference?

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Earnestness is a related term of greediness.


As nouns the difference between earnestness and greediness

is that earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness while greediness is the state of being greedy; greed.

earnestness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

    • 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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    * See also