covetousness

covetousness
n
1. desire, greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, self-seeking, egocentricity, self-interest, self-indulgence; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, closefistedness, tight-fistedness, mercenariness, venality, usurious, sordidness.
2. eagerness, cupidity, avidity, yearning, craving; keenness, itch, itching, appetite, stomach, U.S. Dial. big eye, appetence; anxiousness, breathlessness, impatience, longing, thirst, ardor, zeal, fervency, passion, mania; hankering, aspiration, hunger, lust, ambitiousness.
3. ravenousness, voraciousness, gluttony, edacity, open-mouthedness, hoggishness, piggishness, swinishness; insatiability, insatiateness, omnivorousness, gulosity.

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  • Covetousness — • Generally, an unreasonable desire for what we do not possess Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Covetousness     Covetousness      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • COVETOUSNESS — COVETOUSNESS, condemned and prohibited in the tenth commandment of the Decalogue (Ex. 20:14; Deut. 5:18), and throughout the Bible and Jewish ethical literature, particularly in the Book of Proverbs (e.g., 3:31, 14:30, etc.). Since envy may be… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Covetousness — Cov et*ous*ness, n. 1. Strong desire. [R.] [1913 Webster] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • covetousness — index desire, greed Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • covetousness — covetous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ longing to possess something. DERIVATIVES covetously adverb covetousness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • covetousness — noun see covetous …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • covetousness — See covetously. * * * …   Universalium

  • covetousness — noun Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth. He which will yield to Fear. muſt neceſſarily yield to Covetouſneſs or any inordinate Deſire …   Wiktionary

  • Covetousness —    A strong desire after the possession of worldly things (Col. 3:5; Eph. 5:5; Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10; Matt. 6:20). It assumes sometimes the more aggravated form of avarice, which is the mark of cold hearted worldliness …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • covetousness — Selfish greed, condemned by Jesus (Luke 12:15) and regarded by Paul as the kind of specific command that makes people aware of their sinfulness (Rom. 7:7) …   Dictionary of the Bible

  • covetousness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. avarice, Cupidity, avariciousness; see greed . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Resentful or painful desire for another s advantages: enviousness, envy, jealousy. See DESIRE. 2. Excessive desire for more than one needs or… …   English dictionary for students

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