| Main Entry: | covetousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avarice |
Synonyms: |
avariciousness, cupidity, greed |
| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
Synonyms: |
avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
Antonyms: |
generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
Synonyms: |
acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger, infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning |
Antonyms: |
dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
Synonyms: |
admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
Antonyms: |
aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jealousy |
Synonyms: |
backbiting, coveting, covetousness, enviousness, evil eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudging, grudgingness, hatred, heartburn, ill will, invidiousness, jaundiced eye, lusting, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, opposition, prejudice, resentfulness, resentment, rivalry, spite |
| Notes: | jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person |
Antonyms: |
comfort, confidence, contentedness, good will, kindness, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
Synonyms: |
acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | jealousy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | envy |
Synonyms: |
backbiting, begrudging, covetousness, enviousness, evil eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudgingness, jaundiced eye, resentfulness, resentment, spite |
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
Synonyms: |
animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, avidity, carnality, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, licentiousness, longing, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, thirst, urge, wantonness, weakness, yen |
Antonyms: |
chastity, disenchantment, disgust |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
Synonyms: |
anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, evil-doing, fault, gluttony, guilt, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, pride, shortcoming, sinfulness, sloth, tort, transgression, trespass, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness |
Antonyms: |
behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
Synonyms: |
abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
generosity, nobility, worthiness |