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avarice - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

avarice (usually uncountable, plural avarices)

• Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
  • ✤ Synonyms: covetousness, cupidity
  • ✤ By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.¹
• Inordinate desire for some supposed good.

Etymology

From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).

Pronunciation

• (non-merged vowel) IPA: /ˈævəɹɪs/
• (merged vowel) IPA: /ˈævəɹəs/, /ˈævɹəs/²
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ævəɹəs

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], “Number XII”, in *The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] *, volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], →OCLC: ↩

2. “avarice”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.e ↩

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