covetousness Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun an envious eagerness to possess something
noun extreme greed for material wealth
avarice; cupidity; avariciousness.
noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
avarice; avaritia; greed; rapacity.

Strong desire. R.
When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak.
A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.
Syn. -- Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.