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acquisitiveness
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acquisitiveness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, possessiveness |
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| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | conspicuous consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagant spending |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, conspicuous waste, opulence, waste |
| Main Entry: | avariciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, money-grubbing, money-hunger, rapaciousness, rapacity |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
avaricious, chary, cheeseparing, churlish, close, closefisted, closehanded, covetous, extortionate, fasthanded, greedy, griping, grudging, hardfisted, hidebound, illiberal, mean, mercenary, mingy, miserly, near, niggardly, parsimonious, peddling, penny, rapacious, scrubby, shabby, sneckdrawn, sordid, sparing, stingy, straithanded, tight, tight, usurious, venal
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