COVETOUSNESS Synonyms

• 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)

• strong desire to acquire and possess

• a cherished desire

• a strong drive for success

• have as one's ambition

• a feeling of craving something

• an intense desire for some particular thing

• a yearning for something or to do something

• a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation

• strong desire for something (not food or drink)

• feel the need to eat

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• be hungry; go without food

• prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

• a physiological need to drink

• strong desire for something (not food or drink)

• feel the need to drink

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• a specific feeling of desire

• an expression of some desire or inclination

• (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare

• the particular preference that you have

• to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something

• make or express a wish

• feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of

• order politely; express a wish for

• invoke upon

• prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

• the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

• an inclination to want things

• something that is desired

• feel or have a desire for; want strongly

• expect and wish

• express a desire for

• extreme greed for material wealth

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• extreme greed for material wealth

• 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.