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cupidity
English
Etymology
From French cupidité, from Latin cupidit?s (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kju??p?d?ti/
Noun
cupidity (countable and uncountable, plural cupidities)
- Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the First, page 11 ?ISBN
- His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 784:
- It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the First, page 11 ?ISBN
Synonyms
- (extreme greed): avarice, covetousness; see also Thesaurus:greed
Related terms
- cupid
Translations
Anagrams
- pudicity
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avarice
English
Etymology
From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin av?ritia, from av?rus (“greedy”).
Pronunciation
- (non-merged vowel) IPA(key): /?æv???s/
- (merged vowel) IPA(key): /?æv???s/, /?æv??s/
Noun
avarice (usually uncountable, plural avarices)
- Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
- Synonyms: covetousness, cupidity
- Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Synonyms
- avariciousness
- See also Thesaurus:greed
Related terms
- avaricious, avariciously
Translations
References
Anagrams
- caviare
French
Etymology
From Latin avaritia. Cognate with Italian avarizia, Portuguese avareza, Spanish avaricia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.va.?is/
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
avarice f (plural avarices)
- greed; avarice
Related terms
- avare
- avarement
- avaricieux
Further reading
- “avarice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Latin avaritia.
Noun
avarice f (oblique plural avarices, nominative singular avarice, nominative plural avarices)
- greed; avarice
Descendants
- ? English: avarice
- French: avarice
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