cupidity
Lust for wealth
Cupidity is greedy desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
The word carries a literary or formal tone: The estate brought out cupidity in relatives who had ignored her for years.
Despite sharing a root with Cupid, cupidity concerns avarice rather than love—though both involve intense wanting.
Excessive desire for wealth
- avariceExcessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
hoarding · money-grubbing · grasping · miserliness · parsimony · stinginess · usury · profiteering
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- appetiteDesire for food
hunger · thirst · covetousness · wanting · hankering · pining · eagerness · ardor
Extremely eager to consume
- unquenchableImpossible to satisfy completely
- rapaciousExcessively grasping or greedy
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
insatiable · wolfish · grasping · unappeasable · bottomless · relentless · never-ending · excessive
Abundance of valuable resources
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- goldElement seventy-nine
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
possessions · assets · luxury · opulence · affluence · consumerism · acquisition · status
greed
Excessive desire for wealth
- avariceExcessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
rapacity · hoarding · money-grubbing · grasping · miserliness · parsimony · stinginess · usury · profiteering · exploitation
longing
Intense, persistent desire
appetite · hunger · thirst · covetousness · wanting · hankering · pining · eagerness · ardor · obsession
voracious
Extremely eager to consume
- unquenchableImpossible to satisfy completely
- rapaciousExcessively grasping or greedy
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
ravenous · insatiable · wolfish · grasping · unappeasable · bottomless · relentless · never-ending · excessive
wealth
Abundance of valuable resources
treasure · possessions · assets · luxury · opulence · affluence · consumerism · acquisition · status · commodities
cupiditygenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · openhandedness · largesse · munificence · magnanimity
cupiditycontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · fulfillment · fulfilment · gratification · satiety
cupidityaltruism
Prioritizing others' wellbeing
selflessness · unselfishness · magnanimity · charity · openheartedness