#greed

• Covetous — Passionately craving something, excessively desirous, greedy, covetous, or an ardent amateur of something (food, gain, hunting). In northern dialects and old texts, the term is functionally related to the idea of being eager or greedy, describing an individual ruled by an uncontrollable structural desire.
• Avid — Desiring or coveting something with extreme, uncontrolled passion; ruled by structural greed or an insatiable ambition for money, power, greatness, or pleasures. In daily language, it describes an individual obsessed with obtaining a material or moral benefit, serving as an expressive marker of greed and selfishness.
• Gripper — As a noun, it refers to a person who grabs or seizes something, or a mechanical device used in industry for gripping, extracting, and handling parts; as an adjective, it describes a greedy, rapacious behavior, instinctively oriented toward the rapid and often unfair accumulation of goods or material advantages.
• Mercenary woman — A woman or girl who excessively loves money, silver, or material wealth; a greedy or avaricious female. As a feminine adjective, it refers to actions, mentalities, or inclinations characterized by avarice. It represents the feminine counterpart of the term 'arghirofil' and is structurally used in satirical prose or moral essays to highlight a petty greed or a destructive financial ambition.
• Harpagon — The name of the main character in Molière's famous comedy 'The Miser', characterized by pathological stinginess and absurd greed. By antonomasia, it became a common noun used to denote an extremely stingy or avaricious person.
• Accursed hunger for gold — A famous expression extracted from the epic poem 'Aeneid' by the Latin poet Virgil, literally translated as the 'accursed hunger for gold'. It represents a profound philosophical and moral critique of unchecked greed for material wealth, which drives humanity toward betrayal, crime, and the abandonment of fundamental spiritual values.
• Avarice — A passionate, unrestrained, and often pathological desire to accumulate and hoard wealth, manifested through an excessive attachment to material goods and a constant refusal to spend even for bare necessities. In ethical and philosophical terms, it represents a character flaw that deeply alters interpersonal relationships, isolating the individual within the sphere of their own wealth.
• Avid — Desiring something with fervor, greed, or in an uncontrolled manner, being greedy for gain, honors, or knowledge; figuratively, it describes an extremely curious and passionate person, eager to absorb information, culture, or art. In chemistry and physics, the term applies to substances that exhibit a particularly high affinity for an element or compound, such as a water-avid body that rapidly absorbs moisture.
• Avidity — A strong, insatiable, and greedy desire to obtain or possess something (money, property, power, honors); in a positive or intellectual sense, it represents an intense zeal, a remarkable drive, or a spiritual greed with which an individual absorbs knowledge, art, or impressions. In immunology, the term measures the overall binding strength between an antibody and a multivalent antigen, being an essential structural indicator for evaluating the efficiency of the immune response.