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esurience
| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | edacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voracity |
| Synonyms: | esurience, gluttonousness, insatiability, insatiableness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voraciousness |
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| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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