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Greed vs Stealing - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between greed and stealing

is that greed is a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions while stealing is (uncountable) the action of the verb to steal .

As a verb stealing is

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greed

English

Noun

  • 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.

    Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * greedily * greediness * greedy

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    Anagrams

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    stealing

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to steal .
  • (archaic, chiefly, in the plural) That which is stolen; stolen property.

    • Verb

    (head)

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