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covetousness - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | covetousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avarice |
| Synonyms: | cupidity, greed, avariciousness |
| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
| Synonyms: | avidity, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, parsimony, rapacity, thrift, close-fistedness, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, penny- pinching, penuriousness, stinginess |
| Antonyms: | generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, hunger, infatuation, longing, lust, passion, rapacity, voracity, yearning, acquisitiveness, avariciousness, graspingness, greediness, itching, possessiveness, rapaciousness |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jealousy |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, covetousness, evil eye*, green-eyed monster*, grudge, hatred, heartburn, ill will, malevolence, malice, opposition, prejudice, resentment, rivalry, spite, coveting, enviousness, grudging, grudgingness, invidiousness, jaundiced eye, lusting, maliciousness, malignity, resentfulness |
| 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, good will, kindness, pleasure, contentedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, excess, hunger, indulgence, intemperance, longing, rapacity, selfishness, voracity, acquisitiveness, edacity, esurience, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, insatiableness, piggishness, ravenousness, swinishness, the gimmies |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | jealousy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | envy |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, covetousness, evil eye*, green-eyed monster*, grudge, resentment, spite, begrudging, enviousness, grudgingness, jaundiced eye, resentfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, longing, thirst, urge, weakness, yen, animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, carnality, licentiousness, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disgust, disenchantment |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, fault, guilt, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccadillo, pride, shortcoming, sloth, transgression, trespass, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evil-doing, gluttony, immorality, peccability, peccancy, sinfulness, tort, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| 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, rapture, relish, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning, rapaciousness, ravenousness, salacity |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | avarice, baseness, closeness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, infamy, iniquity, malice, parsimony, rapacity, wickedness, abjection, beastliness, churlishness, contemptibleness, corruptness, ill-temper, knavishness, lowness, malignity, miserliness, pettiness, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, covetousness, voracity, greediness |
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