Cupidity

/kjuːpˈɪdɪti/

/kjuˈpɪdɪti/

[noun]

Cupidity

[NOUN]

the strong desire for attaining a lot of money or material goods

synonyms : avarice

avariciousness

covetousness

Examples

1. Many foreigners were visiting the country by cupidity.

2. We call cupidity I don't know if you've ever played this This is what we've done.

3. Going back to the good minister, Cities are the centers and theatres of human ambition, human cupidity, human pleasure.

4. This method makes for two very great disorders: the one, that of which I have spoken: the other, that a soldier becomes more desirous of booty and less an observer of orders: and it has often been said that the cupidity for booty has made him lose who had been victorious.