Cupidity vs. Avarice — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cupidity and Avarice
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Definitions
Cupidity
Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
Avarice
Extreme greed for wealth or material gain
He was rich beyond the dreams of avarice
Cupidity
Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
Avarice
Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.
Cupidity
A passionate desire; love.
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Avarice
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
Cupidity
Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael.
Avarice
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Cupidity
Extreme greed for material wealth
Avarice
An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness for wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice.
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Avarice
An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
All are taught an avarice of praise.
Avarice
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Avarice
Extreme greed for material wealth
