| Noun | 1. | covetousness - an envious eagerness to possess something | |
| 2. | covetousness - extreme greed for material wealthgreed - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | |
| 3. | covetousness - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; theologians list 7 mortal sins | |