different between covetousness vs closeness

English

Etymology

covetous +? -ness

Noun

covetousness (usually uncountable, plural covetousnesses)

1. Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.
   • 1588, Jean La Placette, Of the Incurable Scepticism of the Church of Rome

     He which will yield to Fear. mu?t nece??arily yield to Covetou?ne?s or any inordinate De?ire.

   • 1661, J. Johnson, The morning-exercise at Cripple-gate

     Covetou?ne?s is the yelow Jaundice of the foul, which ari?es from the over-flowing of the heart with love to yellow gold, by which a Chri?tian is dull'd and deadned.

   • 1815, Samuel Lavington Sermons and other discourses, Volume 1

     Covetousness prevents all good, and is and inlet and encouragement to evil.

   • 1976, Jacques Ellul, The Ethics of Freedom page 134

     In obvious compensation and opposition the fear of nothingness becomes the source of covetousness...

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:greed

Translations

English

Etymology

close +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl??sn?s/

Noun

closeness (usually uncountable, plural closenesses)

1. The state of being close (all senses)
2. The state of being friends
3. The state of being mean or stingy
4. The state of being secretive
5. (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
6. (archaic) Solitude, seclusion
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / To closeness and the bettering of my mind [...]

Synonyms

• (physical): proximity, nearness
• (friends): intimacy
• (stingy):
• (secretive):

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