covetousness

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. an envious eagerness to possess something (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
envy, enviousness
2. reprehensible acquisitiveness;
insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
• Syn:
avarice, greed, rapacity, avaritia
• Derivationally related forms:
rapacious (for: rapacity), covetous, greedy (for: greed), avaricious (for: avarice)
• Hypernyms:
mortal sin, deadly sin
3. extreme greed for material wealth
• Syn:
avarice, avariciousness, cupidity
• Derivationally related forms:
covetous, avaricious (for: avariciousness), avaricious (for: avarice)
• Hypernyms:
greed

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  avarice, greed, rapacity, avaritia, avariciousness, cupidity