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  2. Greed - Wikipedia

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    Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status, or power. Nature of greed [ edit ]

  3. Pleonexia - Wikipedia

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    Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξία, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others."

  4. Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia

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    In the words of Henry Edward Manning, avarice "plunges a man deep into the mire of this world, so that he makes it to be his god". [18] As defined outside Christian writings, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs, especially with respect to material wealth. [27] Aquinas considers that, like pride, it can lead ...

  5. Avaritia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Avaritia is the Latin word for, and personification of, Avarice or Greed. Avaritia may also refer to: Avaritia, subgenus of midges in Culicoides species group; Avaritia, a volume of the comics book series Cassanova "Avaritia" (instrumental), by deadmau5

  6. Love of money - Wikipedia

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    Second, the Greek word for "all" may mean "all without exclusion" or "all without distinction". [9] But by reading more verses either side of 1 Timothy 6:10 a greater surety and confidence that the message is the coveting and striving of greed for something on earth is the sin the Jews and Christians define, where money could be exchanged with ...

  7. Mammon - Wikipedia

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    In Slovak the word mamonár is sometimes used to refer to a greedy person. The word "mammona" is quite often used in the Finnish and Estonian languages as a synonym of material wealth. In German, the word "Mammon" is a colloquial and contemptuous term for "money". Usually as a phrase in combination with the adjective "schnöde" ("der schnöde ...

  8. Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year 2024 is all about ...

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    Cambridge Dictionary has put it out to the universe, naming “manifest” as its word of the year for 2024.. Popularized by celebrities such as singer Dua Lipa, “manifest” refers to the ...

  9. Non-possession - Wikipedia

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    Aparigraha, in contrast, is the virtue of non-possessiveness and non-clinging to one's own property, non-accepting any gifts or particularly improper gifts offered by others, and of non-avarice, non-craving in the motivation of one's deeds, words and thoughts. [8] [32]