noun
1. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
• Syn: ↑avarice, ↑greed, ↑covetousness, ↑avaritia
• Derivationally related forms: ↑rapacious, ↑covetous (for: ↑covetousness), ↑greedy (for: ↑greed), ↑avaricious (for: ↑avarice)
• Hypernyms: ↑mortal sin, ↑deadly sin
2. extreme gluttony
• Syn: ↑edacity, ↑esurience, ↑rapaciousness, ↑voracity, ↑voraciousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑voracious (for: ↑voraciousness), ↑voracious (for: ↑voracity), ↑rapacious, ↑rapacious (for: ↑rapaciousness), ↑esurient (for: ↑esurience), ↑edacious (for: ↑edacity)
• Hypernyms: ↑gluttony
Useful english dictionary. 2012.