avarice
noun
[ ˈav(ə)rɪs ]
• extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
• "he was rich beyond the dreams of avarice"
Similar:
greed,
acquisitiveness,
cupidity,
covetousness,
avariciousness,
rapacity,
rapaciousness,
graspingness,
materialism,
mercenariness,
meanness,
miserliness,
money-grubbing,
money-grabbing,
an itching palm,
grabbiness,
Mammonism,
pleonexia,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus ‘greedy’.
