avaritia
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) • Syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity • Derivationally related forms: rapacious (for: rapacity), covetous (for: covetousness), greedy (for: greed), avaricious (for: avarice) • Hypernyms: mortal sin, deadly sin
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