graspingness
Relentless material craving
Graspingness is the quality of being greedy or eagerly acquisitive, reaching for more than one's share.
The word carries connotations of selfishness and material obsession: His graspingness alienated even his closest friends.
It suggests not just wanting things but clutching at them with excessive eagerness.
Excessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- miserlinessExcessive reluctance to spend
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
insatiability · stinginess · penuriousness · cupidity · extortion · usury · sordidness · parsimony
Powerful urge to have
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- thirstNeed for fluid
covetousness · lust · obsession · infatuation · acquisitiveness · envy · appetite · eagerness
Benefiting oneself primarily
- self-interestConcern for personal advantage
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- self-absorptionPreoccupation with oneself
self-centeredness · egotism · inconsideration · uncharitableness · solipsism · individualism · possessiveness · hoarding
covetousness
Excessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- miserlinessExcessive reluctance to spend
hoarding · insatiability · stinginess · penuriousness · cupidity · extortion · usury · sordidness · parsimony · niggardliness
craving
Powerful urge to have
thirst · covetousness · lust · obsession · infatuation · acquisitiveness · envy · appetite · eagerness · urge
self-serving
Benefiting oneself primarily
- self-interestConcern for personal advantage
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
self-absorption · self-centeredness · egotism · inconsideration · uncharitableness · solipsism · individualism · possessiveness · hoarding · entitlement
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
graspingnessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
unselfishness · selflessness · liberality · openhandedness · magnanimity
graspingnesscontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · fulfillment · fulfilment · contentedness · gratification
graspingnessdetachment
Separation or emotional uninvolvement
letting go · nonattachment · renunciation · relinquishment · release
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