Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun avaritia

1 sense of avaritia

Sense 1
avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia -- (reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins))
       => mortal sin, deadly sin -- (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins")