(Latin, avaritia), avarice, cupidity, or covetousness, is the inordinate desire to possess wealth,
goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond
the dictates of basic survival and comfort.
It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.
To the deluded mind, these material acquisitions makes them feel
excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than others. The avaricious
psyche has a diminished sense of self worth, as a result of which
there is an urgency to do something, or have something, so that people will think that
they are worthy of love, affection, and respect. Notice that the attention of a personality rooted in avariciousness
is not within, but without.
In a mind that is infected with avarice, there is a willing desire to compromise
virtue due to an extreme attachment
to things material. Virtue, morality, and ethics are to be used selectively,
and only in cases where it won't harm one's fame, fortune, and prestige.
Selfishness, falsehood, deceit, hypocrisy, and theft are
common characteristics inherent within the avaricious heart.
Avarice Related Suffering
Deciept
An intent marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending
one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.
Falsehood
A quality of not being true or accurate. The act of rendering something false as by
fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting.
Hypocrisy
Insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do
not really have. Behavior that does not agree with what someone claims to believe or feel.
Selfishness
Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others.
Selfishness is being concerned, sometimes excessively or exclusively, for oneself
or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others.
Theft
The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.