avarice
Meanings
Plural: avarices
Noun
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- extreme greed for material wealth
- Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
- Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).
Synonyms
avariciousness, avaritia, covetousness, cupidity, greed, rapacity
Scrabble Score: 12
avarice is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordavarice is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
avarice is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
avarice is a valid Words With Friends word