greed

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Noun greed has 2 senses

greed - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
--₁ is a kind of desire
--₁ has particulars:
avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity; possessiveness; acquisitiveness
avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
--₂ is a kind of mortal sin, deadly sin

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