Definition for Avarice:

• An insatiable desire for wealth; covetousness.

Synonyms for Avarice:

• n.

  •
  • self-centeredness,
  • selfishness,
  • penny-pinching.
  •
  • give.
  •act (noun)
  • avaritia,
  • covetousness,
  • avarice.
  •avariciousness (noun)
  • moneygrubbing,
  • money-hunger,
  • money-grubbing.
  •avidity (noun)
  • intense desire.
  •cupidity (noun)
  • greediness,
  • possessiveness.
  •economizing (noun)
  • frugality.
  •envy (noun)
  • dissatisfaction,
  • envy,
  • resentment,
  • desire,
  • discontent.
  •extreme greed (noun)
  • penuriousness,
  • parsimony,
  • close-fistedness,
  • thrift.
  •frugality (noun)
  • scrimpings,
  • fore handednesses,
  • miserlinesses,
  • forehandednesses,
  • fore-handedness,
  • stinginesses,
  • parsimoniousnesses,
  • good managements,
  • niggardlinesses,
  • fore-handednesses,
  • fore handedness.
  •gluttony (noun)
  • extravagance,
  • intemperance,
  • hoggishness,
  • excessiveness,
  • boundlessness,
  • overindulgence,
  • consumption,
  • immoderateness,
  • omnivorousness,
  • indulgence,
  • Insatiability,
  • crapulence,
  • voraciousness.
  •greed (noun)
  • ex-cess,
  • the gimmie,
  • gimmies,
  • piggishnesses,
  • esuriences,
  • in satiableness,
  • in temperances,
  • ex-cesses,
  • gormandizings,
  • in satiablenesses,
  • ex cess,
  • in-satiablenesses,
  • in-temperance,
  • in-temperances,
  • swinishnesses,
  • gimmie,
  • in temperance,
  • insatiablenesses,
  • in-satiableness.

• Other synonyms:

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  • grabbiness,
  • graspingness.
  •
  • avidity.

Paraphrases for Avarice:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    greed.

Antonyms for Avarice:

• n.

  • extreme greed
    generosity, philanthropy.
  • Other antonyms:
    contentment, magnanimity, altruism, openhandedness, bounteousness, gratification, bounty, charity, openheartedness, largesse, satisfaction, generousness, fulfillment, selflessness.

Avarice Sentence Examples:

• When Senator, he was, without sufficient ground, accused of avarice in the otherwise just and necessary execution of Montreal.

• The first occurs when a man dies daily to himself; that is, to his own carnal desires, to his avarice, pride, lust, and wrath, and such other sins and passions as have their rise in a corrupt nature.

Homophones for Avarice:

• apercu, aphorize, africa, avaricious, apraxia, apprise, affairs, Auberge, aphaeresis, apheresis, apprize, approach, aphriza, Averroes, apivorous, apraxic, abruzzi, appraise, aphorise, average, abroach, afro-wig, averse, abrachia, abrase, afresh.

Hyponym for Avarice:

• n.

  • act
    deadly sin, mortal sin.