Inordinate+desire
21incontinence — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, boundlessness, carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, cupidity, dissipation,… …
22itching palm — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, cupidity, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, hoggishness, incontinence, inordinate desire,… …
23rapacity — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, claim, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, cupidity, demand, edacity, exaction, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness, gluttony, grasping,… …
24voracity — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, cupidity, edacity, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed,… …
25BABEL, TOWER OF — BABEL, TOWER OF, the edifice whose building is portrayed in Genesis 11:1–9 as the direct cause of the diversity of languages in the world and the dispersion of mankind over all the earth. According to the preceding narrative, mankind after the… …
26in|or´di|nate|ness — in|or|di|nate «ihn R duh niht», adjective. 1. much too great; not kept within proper limits; excessive: »He lost a fortune trying to satisfy his inordinate desire for gambling. SYNONYM(S): immoderate, intemperate, unrestrained. See syn. under… …
27in|or´di|nate|ly — in|or|di|nate «ihn R duh niht», adjective. 1. much too great; not kept within proper limits; excessive: »He lost a fortune trying to satisfy his inordinate desire for gambling. SYNONYM(S): immoderate, intemperate, unrestrained. See syn. under… …
28in|or|di|nate — «ihn R duh niht», adjective. 1. much too great; not kept within proper limits; excessive: »He lost a fortune trying to satisfy his inordinate desire for gambling. SYNONYM(S): immoderate, intemperate, unrestrained. See syn. under excessive. (Cf.… …
29Ambition — Am*bi tion, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire to go around. See {Ambient}, {Issue}.] 1. The act of going about to solicit or… …
30Covetousness — Cov et*ous*ness, n. 1. Strong desire. [R.] [1913 Webster] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed… …
