Hypertext Webster Gateway: "covetousness"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.]
When workmen strive to do better than well, They do
confound their skill in covetousness. --Shak.
2. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
covetousness
n 1: an envious eagerness to possess something
2: extreme greed for material wealth [syn: {avarice}, {avariciousness},
{cupidity}]
3: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
(personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {avarice}, {greed},
{rapacity}, {avaritia}]
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