'Cupidity' definitions:
Definition of 'cupidity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Cupidity'
From: GCIDE
- Cupidity \Cu*pid"i*ty\ (k?-p?d"?-t?), n. [F. cupidite, L. cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See Covet.]
- 1. A passionate desire; love. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cupidity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquisitiveness,
- avarice,
- avariciousness,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- covetousness,
- craving,
- desire,
- eagerness,
- frenzy of desire,
- fury of desire,
- gluttony,
- grasping,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- greediness,
- hoggishness,
- incontinence,
- infatuation,
- inordinate desire,
- insatiability,
- insatiable desire,
- intemperateness,
- itching palm,
- lust,
- overgreediness,
- passion,
- piggishness,
- possessiveness,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- ravenousness,
- sordidness,
- swinishness,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- wolfishness