different between craving vs avaricious

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?.v??/
• Rhymes: -e?v??

Etymology 1

From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave +? -ing.

Noun

craving (plural cravings)

1. A strong desire; yearning.

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: craven

Translations

Etymology 2

From crave.

Verb

craving

1. present participle of crave

Further reading

• craving in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• craving in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• carving

English

Alternative forms

• avaritious (obsolete)
• avaricius (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æv??????s/

Adjective

avaricious (comparative more avaricious, superlative most avaricious)

1. Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
   • 1835, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow

     In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:greedy

Derived terms

• avariciously
• avariciousness

Related terms

• avarice

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “avaricious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary