Meaning & use
cupidity
An excessive, greedy desire for money, wealth, or possessions.
See it in a sentence
The old man's cupidity led him to cheat his own relatives out of their inheritance.
Cupidity, not necessity, drove the executives to falsify the company's earnings.
A note on using this word
Cupidity is a formal, disapproving word for greed, related to the Latin root that also gives us 'Cupid' and 'covet'.
Words with a similar meaning
greedavarice
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