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noun

    Excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves: acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, graspingness, greed. Informal grabbiness. See desire, give/take/reciprocity.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: extreme greed for material wealth
  Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity

 
 
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