English-Thai Dictionary

cupidity

N ความโลภ  greed avidity kwam-lob

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUPIDITY

n.[L., to desire, to covet. ] An eager desire to possess something; an ardent wishing or longing; inordinate or unlawful desire of wealth or power. It is not used, I believe, for the animal appetite, like lust or concupiscence, but for desire of the mind. No property is secure when it becomes large enough to tempt the cupidity of indigent power.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CUPIDITY

Cu *pid "i *ty (k-pd "-t ), n. Etym: [F. cupidite, L. cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See Covet. ]

 

1. A passionate desire; love. [Obs. ]

 

2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cupidity

cu pid i ty |kyo͞oˈpiditē kjuˈpɪdədi | ▶noun greed for money or possessions. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French cupidite or Latin cupiditas, from cupidus ‘desirous, ’ from cupere ‘to desire. ’ Compare with covet .

 

Oxford Dictionary

cupidity

cupidity |kjuːˈpɪdɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] greed for money or possessions. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French cupidite or Latin cupiditas, from cupidus ‘desirous ’, from cupere ‘to desire ’. Compare with covet .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

cupidity

cupidity noun he did not really see her cupidity until they'd been married for several years: greed, avarice, avariciousness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, Mammonism; informal money-grubbing. ANTONYMS generosity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cupidity

cu pid i ty /kjʊpɪ́dəti /名詞 U ｟かたく ｠貪 （どん ）欲 (さ ) (!主に富や物に対する欲求 ) .