Cupidity

Noun

 * 1) Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
 * The conqueror's cupidity created economic problems in the kingdom.
 * 1) * 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 37
 * Humanity had always been fascinated by the mystery of the falling dice, the turn of a card, the spin of the pointer. At its lowest level, this interest was based on mere cupidity—and that was an emotion that could have no place in a world where everyone possessed all that they could reasonably need.

Synonyms

 * avarice, covetousness; see also Thesaurus:greed

Related terms

 * cupid

Adjectives
native; personal; marked; avaricious; expressive.

Thesaurus
acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, craving, desire, eagerness, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, hoggishness, incontinence, infatuation, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, itching palm, lust, overgreediness, passion, piggishness, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, sordidness, swinishness, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness

Etymology
From cupidité:, from  cupiditas:, from cupidus:. Compare Cupid:.

Translations

 * Armenian: ագահություն, ընչաքաղցություն
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian:, лакомост


 * Romanian: cupiditate
 * Russian:, ,  корыстолюбие
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:, алавост