| 单词 | greed, greediness |
| 例句 | greed, greediness noun 1.•human greed:avarice, cupidity, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity | materialism, mercenariness | rare pleonexia | informal money-grubbing, affluenza. ANT generosity. 2.•her mouth watered with greed:gluttony, hunger, voracity, insatiability | gourmandism, intemperance, overeating, self-indulgence | informal piggishness. ANT temperance. 3.•their greed for power:desire, appetite, hunger, thirst, craving, longing, lust, yearning, hankering | avidity, eagerness | informal yen, itch. ANT indifference.WORD NOTE pleonexia An ancient word for a contemporary condition. Where pleonexia does the linguistic work that simple greed or avarice does not, is in its diagnosis of a covetousness that is not healthy, that is abnormal. It is a word that needs to be added to the more harmless terms with which we describe the modern consumer. Pleonexia is a heightened and unhealthy condition, as anorexia is the pathological extremity of a brand of asceticism. There is need, then there is desire, then there is greed, and then there is pleonexia. — ZSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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