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eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something; greed; avarice.
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Cupidity
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example Sentences
- Natural ecology has a memory longer than human cupidity.
- Cupidity took hold and generalized itself from top to bottom.
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Word Origin & History
cupidity
mid-15c., from Anglo-Fr. cupidite, from M.Fr. cupidité, from L. cupiditas "passionate desire," from cupidus "eager, passionate," from cupere "to desire" (perhaps cognate with Skt. kupyati "bubbles up, becomes agitated," O.Slav. kypeti "to boil," Lith. kupeti "to boil over"). Despite the erotic
EXPANDsense of the Latin word, in English cupidity originally, and still especially, means "desire for wealth."
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