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Definitions of greed in various dictionaries:
noun - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
noun - reprehensible acquisitiveness
noun - excessive desire for gain or wealth
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| One of 7-Down |
| Miser's motivation |
| Voracity |
| Love of dough |
| Excessive ambition |
| Avarice |
| Midas's undoing |
| Classic 1925 Von Stroheim film |
| Money-hunger |
| Mammonism |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| Avarice, as in the title of an Erich Von Stroheim film |
| In the movies, Gordon Gekko said it was good |
| It's a synonym for "avarice" & the name of a first-year economics seminar at Swarthmore |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth: "Many . . . attach to competition the stigma of selfish greed ( Henry Fawcett). |
| intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. |
| Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. |
| excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves |
| reprehensible acquisitiveness insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| a very strong wish to continuously get more of something, especially food or money: |
| a strong desire to continually get more of something, esp. money: |
| Greed description |
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Greed, or avarice, is an inordinate or insatiable longing for unneeded excess, especially for excess wealth, status, power, or food. * As a secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of inordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of "wants" once desired "needs" are eliminated. Erich Fromm described greed as "a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else. * The purpose for greed, and any actions associated with it, is possibly to deprive others of potential means (perhaps, of basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities accordingly, or to obstruct them therefrom, thus insidious and tyrannical or otherwise having a negative connota |
| Related Answers |
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| AMBIT |
| AVARICE |
| CUPIDITY |
| EAGERNESS |
| ENTHUSIASM |
| ENVY |
| GLUTTONY |
| GREEDINESS |
| KEENNESS |
| LAP |