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Noun covetousness has 3 senses
- covetousness - an envious eagerness to possess something
--1 is a kind of envy, enviousness, the green-eyed monster
- avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity - extreme greed for material wealth
--2 is a kind of greed
- avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
--3 is a kind of mortal sin, deadly sin
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