different between economy vs covetousness

English

Alternative forms

• oeconomy, œconomy (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from ????? (oîkos, “house”) + ???? (ném?, “distribute, allocate”) (surface analysis eco- +? -nomy). The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /i??k?n.?.mi/
• (General American) enPR: ?k?n??m?, ?k?n??m? IPA^(key): /i??k?n.?.mi/, /??k?n.?.mi/, /??k?n.?.mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

economy (countable and uncountable, plural economies)

1. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
   1. (obsolete) The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.

      animal economy, vegetable economy

   2. (obsolete) System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.
   3. (obsolete) A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies.

      the Jewish economy

   4. (obsolete) The disposition or arrangement of any work.

      the economy of a poem

2. The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
3. Frugal use of resources.

   economy of word

   • April 5, 1729, Jonathan Swift, letter to St. John

     I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.

4. The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
5. (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See w:Economy (religion).)
6. (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
7. (archaic) Management of one’s residency.

Derived terms

Related terms

• economics
  • macroeconomics
  • microeconomics

Translations

Adjective

economy (not comparable)

1. Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money.

   He bought an economy car.

   Economy size.

Adverb

economy (not comparable)

1. (US) In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.

   Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.

Translations

Anagrams

• monoecy

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