Word of the Day – Cupidity

• Noun: Cupidity
  1. inordinate desire for wealth : avarice, greed
  2. strong desire : lust

• Synonyms:
  1. Greed
  2. Avarice
  3. Covetousness
  4. Rapacity
  5. Materialism
  6. Mammonism
  7. Money-grubbing

• Usage:

“Nevertheless, knowing the weakness of her husband, and more particularly his cupidity, she did not despair of bringing him round to her purpose.”

• Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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