avarice
Lust for wealth
Avarice is extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
The word carries a moralizing tone, suggesting not just wanting money but an excessive, almost obsessive desire to accumulate it: His avarice knew no bounds.
Avarice appears more in literary or religious contexts than everyday speech, where greed serves the same purpose.
Wealth or destiny
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- goldElement seventy-nine
- lucreMoney, disparagingly
mammon · filthy lucre · money · affluence · opulence · plutocracy · profiteering · usury
Excessive desire for possessions
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- cupidityEager desire for riches
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
grasping · voracity · materialism · selfishness · mercenary · money-grubbing · predatory · exploitative
Soul-destroying moral failing
- viceBad habit or deputy
- mortal sinGrace-destroying spiritual offense
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- transgressionViolation of law or code
cardinal sin · temptation · wickedness · iniquity · corruption · immorality · depravity · mammon
Excessive reluctance to spend
- stinginessExcessive reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- accumulationCollected mass over time
- amassCollect in quantity
hoarder · squirreling · stockpiling · parsimony · tightfistedness · niggardliness · cheapness · scrimping
Miserly, cold-hearted person
- MidasMythical transmuting monarch
- misanthropeOne who hates humanity
- CroesusByword for extreme wealth
fortune
Wealth or destiny
lucre · mammon · filthy lucre · money · affluence · opulence · plutocracy · profiteering · usury · inheritance
covetousness
Excessive desire for possessions
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- cupidityEager desire for riches
insatiable · grasping · voracity · materialism · selfishness · mercenary · money-grubbing · predatory · exploitative · extortionate
deadly sin
Soul-destroying moral failing
- viceBad habit or deputy
- mortal sinGrace-destroying spiritual offense
- damnationEternal punishment decree
transgression · cardinal sin · temptation · wickedness · iniquity · corruption · immorality · depravity · mammon · perdition
miserliness
Excessive reluctance to spend
- stinginessExcessive reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- accumulationCollected mass over time
amass · hoarder · squirreling · stockpiling · parsimony · tightfistedness · niggardliness · cheapness · scrimping · clutching
Scrooge
Miserly, cold-hearted person
- MidasMythical transmuting monarch
- misanthropeOne who hates humanity
- CroesusByword for extreme wealth
- deadly sinspride, sloth, lust, gluttony, greed
- greedgreed, covetousness, cupidity, materialism, misers
- Money Themeswealth, poverty, greed, gold, riches
- selfishnessselfishness, greed, egoism, narcissism, self-centeredness
- desireyearn, yearning, crave, craving, lust
- inner enemieslust, anger, greed, delusion, arrogance
avaricegenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · munificence · largesse · open-handedness · philanthropy
avaricecontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · fulfillment · gratification · satiety · contentedness
avariceselflessness
Prioritizing others over oneself
unselfishness · altruism · charity · open-heartedness · benefaction