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pleonexias

pleonexias is the plural of pleonexia.

Meaning of pleonexia

Noun

pleonexia (usually uncountable, plural pleonexias)

  1. (usually) Excessive or insatiable greed, avarice, covetousness, the desire to have more, a greedy desire for certain goods.
    • There are two words in the Greek which set forth the nature of covetousness: 1. Pleonexia, which signifies an 'insatiable desire of getting the world.' Covetousness is a dry dropsy.1838, Thomas Watson, A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster

Questions about pleonexias

What is pleonexias the plural of?
Pleonexias is the plural of pleonexia.

Words near pleonexias in the dictionary

  1. pleonastical
  2. pleonastically
  3. pleonasts
  4. pleonectic
  5. pleonexia
  6. pleonexias
  7. pleonite
  8. pleonites
  9. pleons
  10. pleophagous
  11. pleophonic

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