| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | covetousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avarice |
Synonyms: |
avariciousness, cupidity, greed |
| Main Entry: | avidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness |
Synonyms: |
avarice, cupidity, enthusiasm, fervor, greediness, intense desire, longing |
Antonyms: |
apathy, indifference |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
avarice, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, rapaciousness, thievery, voracity |
Antonyms: |
generosity |
| Main Entry: | acquisitiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, possessiveness |
| Main Entry: | avariciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, money-grubbing, money-hunger, rapaciousness, rapacity |