CUPIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cupidity mean? 

• CUPIDITY (noun)
  The noun CUPIDITY has 1 sense:

1. extreme greed for material wealth

  Familiarity information: CUPIDITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUPIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme greed for material wealth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

avarice; avariciousness; covetousness; cupidity

Hypernyms ("cupidity" is a kind of...):

greed (excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves)

 Context examples 

The rest was left contingent on the value of my professional exertions; in other and more expressive words, on the baseness of my nature, the cupidity of my motives, the poverty of my family, the general moral (or rather immoral) resemblance between myself and—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)