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

3 senses of covetousness

Sense 1
covetousness -- (an envious eagerness to possess something)
       => envy, enviousness -- (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)

Sense 2
avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity -- (extreme greed for material wealth)
       => greed -- (excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves)

Sense 3
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")