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noun
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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Similar:

avarice avaritia covetousness rapacity

type of:
mortal sin deadly sin
noun
excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
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type of:
desire

Definition that contains greed

gold fever greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush