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AVARITIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does avaritia mean?
• AVARITIA (noun)
The noun AVARITIA has 1 sense:
1. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Familiarity information: AVARITIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
avarice; avaritia; covetousness; greed; rapacity
Hypernyms ("avaritia" is a kind of...):
deadly sin; mortal sin (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace)
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