Cupidity

Quick meaning: Cupidity is a noun meaning Extreme greed, especially for wealth.

Meaning

Extreme greed, especially for wealth.

Example Sentences

A bargain is a social evil; one man's loss, tempting another man's cupidity.

It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.

Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.

To previous resentment of the wide acceptance socially of [George] Hudson was added the venom of those whose cupidity had led them astray.

Word Forms

• cupidities

Synonyms for cupidity

Depending on context, synonyms include avarice, covetousness, avariciousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, greed, avidity, overgreediness.

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