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单词 Avaritia
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Avaritia

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Greed

1909 painting The Worship of Mammon, the New Testament representation and personification of material greed,  by Evelyn De Morgan.
Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice by James Gillray.
The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride.
Avarice  (2012), by  Jesus Solana

Greed (OE grǽdum) is an inordinate or insatiable longing, esp. for wealth, status, and power.

As secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of inordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of "wants" once desired "needs" are eliminated. Erich Fromm described greed as "a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.

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