avaritia

Meaning

1. (declension-1) A greedy desire for possessions or gain; avarice, greed, greediness, covetousness, rapacity.
2. (declension-1) Eagerness for food, gluttony, voracity.
3. (declension-1) Stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness, meanness.

Concepts

avarice

stinginess

miserliness

greed

closefistedness

niggardliness

parsimony

penuriousness

mammonism

poverty

costiveness

covetousness

avaritia

meanness

cupidity

misery

Synonyms

avarities

aviditas

concupiscentia

sordes

avāritiēs

avāritia

cupiditas

Translations

avarizia

avaricia

lésine

taccagneria

Geiz

avarice

tirchieria

pingrerie

Knickerigkeit

parcimonie

esosità

parcimónia

ladrerie

Knauserigkeit

Knauserei

Pronounced as (IPA)

[a.waːˈrɪ.ti.a]

Etymology

From avārus (“greedy, avaricious, covetous”) + -itia, from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).