coveting
Desiring another's possessions
Coveting is wanting something that belongs to someone else, especially with envy or excessive desire.
The word carries moral weight from its biblical prohibition: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
You might covet a colleague's corner office, a neighbor's car, or someone's natural talent.
The emphasis falls on longing for what isn't yours to have.
Resentful desire for another's advantages
- resentmentPersistent bitter displeasure
- begrudgingReluctantly allowing or giving
- enviousWanting what others possess
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
comparison · bitterness · spite · grudge · possessiveness · discontent · invidious · green-eyed
Intense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- hankeringPersistent strong desire
pining · thirsting · lusting · wishing · aspiring · aching · hungering · desiring
Excessive desire for riches
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
- graspingGreedy for wealth
rapacity · insatiability · possessiveness · accumulation · cupidity · voracity · consumerism · selfishness
Cultural or social prohibition
- sinViolation of divine law
- commandmentAuthoritative rule to obey
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
forbidden fruit · thou shalt not · vice · biblical · immoral
jealousy
Resentful desire for another's advantages
- resentmentPersistent bitter displeasure
- begrudgingReluctantly allowing or giving
- enviousWanting what others possess
rivalry · comparison · bitterness · spite · grudge · possessiveness · discontent · invidious · green-eyed · ill-will
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
hankering · pining · thirsting · lusting · wishing · aspiring · aching · hungering · desiring · fixation
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
grasping · rapacity · insatiability · possessiveness · accumulation · cupidity · voracity · consumerism · selfishness · mercenary
taboo
Cultural or social prohibition
- sinViolation of divine law
- commandmentAuthoritative rule to obey
- transgressionViolation of law or code
temptation · forbidden fruit · thou shalt not · vice · biblical · immoral
- wantingwant, desire, crave, yearn, long
- commandmentsTen Commandments, no other gods, honor thy parents, honor parents, no stealing
- sinsgreed, lust, gluttony, deadly sin, sloth
- forbidden actsblasphemy, idolatry, sacrilege, adultery, incest
- Torah lawsTen Commandments, Sabbath observance, kosher laws, dietary laws, tefillin
- Torah sinsidol worship, idolatry, blasphemy, adultery, incest
covetingcontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · satiation · acceptance · gratitude · desirelessness
covetinggenerous
Willing to give freely
generosity · giving · bountiful · bounteous · charitable
covetingbenevolence
Disposition toward doing good
goodwill · well-wishing · admiring · altruism · magnanimity
covet, coveted, covetous, covets, covetousness, covetously, coveter