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n. Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.

n. Strong desire.

n. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.

n. Strong desire; eagerness.

n. The character of being covetous, in an evil sense; a strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing something, without regard to law or justice; overbearing avarice.

n. Synonyms Avarice, Cupidity, etc. (see avarice), greediness, hankering.

n. extreme greed for material wealth

n. an envious eagerness to possess something

n. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

"Here, as in Eph 5: 3, 5, "covetousness" is joined with "fornication": the common fount of both being "the fierce and ever fiercer longing of the creature, which has turned from God, to fill itself with the inferior objects of sense" [Trench, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament]."

greed    envy    enviousness    deadly sin    mortal sin   

cupidity    eagerness    avarice    desire    greedy   

covet   

avarice    cupidity    gluttony    ingratitude    dishonesty