AVARITIA Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the word avaritia. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for AVARITIA
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covetousness | nounn | |||||||
noun • an envious eagerness to possess something • extreme greed for material wealth • reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | ||||||||
greed | nounn | |||||||
noun • excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves • reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | ||||||||
rapacity | nounn | |||||||
noun • extreme gluttony • reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) • (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | ||||||||
acquisitiveness | nounn | |||||||
noun • strong desire to acquire and possess | ||||||||
cupidity | nounn | |||||||
noun • extreme greed for material wealth | ||||||||
frugality | nounn | |||||||
noun • prudence in avoiding waste | ||||||||
grasping | verb, adjectivev, adj | |||||||
noun • understanding with difficulty • the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) adjective satellite • immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | ||||||||
materialism | nounn | |||||||
noun • a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters • (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | ||||||||
meanness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being deliberately mean • extreme stinginess | ||||||||
miserliness | nounn | |||||||
noun • total lack of generosity with money | ||||||||
parsimony | nounn | |||||||
noun • extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily • extreme stinginess | ||||||||
penuriousness | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of lacking money • a disposition to be niggardly with money | ||||||||
selfishness | nounn | |||||||
noun • stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others | ||||||||
stinginess | nounn | |||||||
noun • a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money | ||||||||
thrift | nounn | |||||||
noun • any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers • extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | ||||||||
tightfistedness | nounn | |||||||
noun • extreme stinginess | ||||||||
avarice | nounn | |||||||
noun • reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) • extreme greed for material wealth |