Greed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Greed \Greed\ (gr[=e]d"), n. [Akin to Goth. gr[=e]dus hunger,
     Icel. gr[=a][eth]r. [root]34. See {Greedy.}]
     An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  greed
       n 1: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more
            material wealth) than one needs or deserves
       2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
          (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {avarice}, {covetousness},
           {rapacity}, {avaritia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "greed":
     acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, autism, avarice, avariciousness,
     avaritia, avidity, avidness, careerism, covetousness, crapulence,
     crapulency, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, edacity, ego trip,
     egotism, envy, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness,
     gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greediness, gula, gulosity,
     hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, individualism,
     inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance,
     intemperateness, interest, invidia, ira, itching palm, lust,
     luxuria, meanness, miserliness, narcissism, niggardliness,
     omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence,
     parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, personal aims,
     personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, piggishness,
     polyphagia, possessiveness, pride, privatism, rapaciousness,
     rapacity, ravenousness, remoteness, self-absorption,
     self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness,
     self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem,
     self-indulgence, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy,
     self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving,
     self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, sloth,
     sordidness, stinginess, superbia, swinish gluttony, swinishness,
     voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, wrath, yearning