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prettygoodword) wrote2007-10-16 07:20 am
prettygoodword) wrote2007-10-16 07:20 am
cupidity
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.
---L.
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.
---L.