Noun
A passionate desire; love.
Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
Source: Webster's dictionary...the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are! Théodore Guérin
This sounded promising, and my coefficient of cupidity jumped several points. Arthur C. Clarke
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'. Harlan Ellison
Both of them mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect,-that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity. James Russell Lowell
The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe. Wallace Stegner
Cupidity has no peak. Japanese Proverb