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In Slovak the word mamonár is sometimes used to refer to a greedy person. The word "mammona" is quite often used in the Finnish and Estonian languages as a synonym of material wealth. In German, the word "Mammon" is a colloquial and contemptuous term for "money". Usually as a phrase in combination with the adjective "schnöde" ("der schnöde ...
Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξία, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others."
Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status, or power.
These three states are delusion, also known as ignorance; greed or sensual attachment; and hatred or aversion. [1] [2] These three poisons are considered to be three afflictions or character flaws that are innate in beings and the root of craving, and so causing suffering and rebirth. [1] [3]
A Pythagorean Cup (also known as a Pythagoras Cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice, Anti Greedy Goblet or Tantalus Cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base.
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Greedy Gretchen, a character who appeared in episodes of the TV sitcoms Three's Company and Three's a Crowd; Gretchen, a character in James A. Michener's novel The Drifters; Gretchen, a character in George Tabori's farce stage-adaptation of Hitler's Mein Kampf; Gretchen, a fictional character from Zombillenium; Gretchen Klein, a character in ...
Greed, a film by Erich von Stroheim; Greed, a film featuring Jason London; Greed, a satirical film by Michael Winterbottom; Greed, a 1999 American TV quiz show Greed (UK game show), a British television quiz show; WCW Greed, a professional wrestling pay-per-view TV show "Greed", a 1995 episode of 2point4 children