cupidity

Oct. 16th, 2007 07:20 am
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cupidity - excessive desire for wealth, avarice, greed.


Yes, desire, but not, in this form of the word, sexual. Ultimately from Latin cupidus, desirous, from cupere, to desire -- so related to Cupid, son of Venus and one of the Roman gods of love, and to covet.

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