Cov″et‐ous‐ness, n. 1. Strong desire.
When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.
Shak.
2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; — in a bad sense.
Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting.
Sprat.
Syn. — Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.