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avarice
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 avarice
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
synoniemen: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity.
Roget 817a:
covetousness,
ravenousness
etc.
adj.;
venality,
avidity,
cupidity;
acquisitiveness
(acquisition)
775;
desire
etc.
865.
[greed for money or material things]
greed,
greediness,
avarice,
avidity,
rapacity,
extortion.
selfishness
etc.
943;
auri sacra fames [Lat.].
grasping,
craving,
canine appetite,
rapacity.
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Roget 957:
gluttony;
greed,
avarice;
greediness
etc.
adj.;
voracity.
epicurism;
good living,
high living;
edacity†,
gulosity†,
crapulence†;
guttling†,
guzzling;
pantophagy†.
good cheer,
blow out;
feast
etc.
(food)
298;
gastronomy,
batterie de cuisine [Fr.].
epicure,
bon vivant,
gourmand;
glutton,
cormorant,
hog,
belly god,
Apicius†,
gastronome;
gourmet
etc.
954.1,
868.
v..
gormandize,
gorge;
overgorge†,
overeat oneself;
engorge,
eat one's fill,
cram,
stuff;
guttle†,
guzzle;
bolt,
devour,
gobble up;
gulp
etc.
(swallow food)
298;
raven,
eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich;
play a good knife and fork
etc.
(appetite)
865.
pamper.
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Roget 819:
parsimony,
parcity†;
parsimoniousness†,
stinginess
etc.
adj.;
stint;
illiberality,
tenacity.
avarice,
greed
etc.
817.1.
miser,
niggard,
churl,
screw,
skinflint,
crib,
codger,
muckworm†,
scrimp,
lickpenny†,
hunks,
curmudgeon,
Harpagon,
harpy,
extortioner,
Jew,
usurer;
Hessian [U.S.];
pinch fist,
pinch penny.
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Nederlands: hebzuchtigheid, inhaligheid, schraapzuchtigheid, schraapzucht, hebberigheid, hebzucht
2 avarice
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, cheapness, closefistedness, closeness, covetousness, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, envy, frenzy of desire, frugality, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gula, hardfistedness, hoarding, hoggishness, illiberality, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, invidia, ira, itching palm, lust, luxuria, meanness, miserliness, nearness, niggardliness, overgreediness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, piggishness, pride, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, sloth, sordidness, stinginess, superbia, swinishness, thrift, tight purse strings, tightfistedness, tightness, ungenerosity, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, wrath ... meer laten zien.
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