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Definition of Cupidity
1. Noun. Extreme greed for material wealth.
Generic synonyms: Greed
Derivative terms: Avaricious, Avaricious, Covetous
Definition of Cupidity
1. n. A passionate desire; love.
Definition of Cupidity
1. Noun. Extreme greed, especially for wealth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cupidity
1. greed; lust [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupidity
Literary usage of Cupidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"Finally, while absolute poverty in countries like Germany has decreased and simple
theft also, luxury and cupidity have increased, together with the other ..."
2. Labour and the Popular Welfare by William Hurrell Mallock (1894)
"cupidity is in itself the most general and legitimate desire to which any ...
Everybody must see that a cupidity which is excited thus is one of the most ..."
3. Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Léger (1907)
"CHAPTER II Christopher Columbus—His arrival in Haiti—Behavior of the Spaniards
toward the aborigines—Tlu-ir cupidity—\\"ar—Caonabo—Anacaona— The Spanish ..."
4. Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in by Simón Bolívar (1828)
"... Vice-president of Venezuela—Want of Discipline and Patriotism of the Lower
Classes of Creoles— Popularity of General Paez—Ship-builders, their cupidity, ..."
5. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, dignity, distinction, fame, muchness, grandeur, generosity, importance, etc.
greed, n. desire, greediness, cupidity, avidity; spec, ..."
6. Why Italy Entered Into the Great War, by Luigi Carnovale by Luigi Carnovale (1917)
"X Territorial cupidity. Where was the territorial cupidity which incited the
Italian people to enter the great war, attacking Austria? ..."
7. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1891)
"The desire for personal glory and the cupidity . E gold were uppermost in the
minds of many Spanish ..."
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