greediness
English
Etymology
From Middle English gredynesse, from Old English grǣdiġnes; equivalent to greedy + -ness.
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Noun
greediness (usually uncountable, plural greedinesses)
- The state of being greedy; greed.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Thereto the body of a dog she had, / Full of fell ravin and fierce greedinesse […]
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