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Greed

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Greed

	Greed \Greed\ (gr[=e]d"), n. [Akin to Goth. gr[=e]dus hunger,
   Icel. gr[=a][eth]r. [root]34. See Greedy.]
   An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
   [1913 Webster]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
Greed

	greed
     n 1: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more
          material wealth) than one needs or deserves
     2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
        (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, covetousness,
         rapacity, avaritia]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Greed

	99 Moby Thesaurus words for "greed":
   acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, autism, avarice, avariciousness,
   avaritia, avidity, avidness, careerism, covetousness, crapulence,
   crapulency, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, edacity, ego trip,
   egotism, envy, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness,
   gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greediness, gula, gulosity,
   hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, individualism,
   inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance,
   intemperateness, interest, invidia, ira, itching palm, lust,
   luxuria, meanness, miserliness, narcissism, niggardliness,
   omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence,
   parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, personal aims,
   personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, piggishness,
   polyphagia, possessiveness, pride, privatism, rapaciousness,
   rapacity, ravenousness, remoteness, self-absorption,
   self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness,
   self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem,
   self-indulgence, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy,
   self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving,
   self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, sloth,
   sordidness, stinginess, superbia, swinish gluttony, swinishness,
   voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, wrath, yearning

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