Cōv'et-ōŭs-ness, n.
n. 1. Strong desire; eagerness. [Rare.]
When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak.
Sense 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good;—usually in a bad sense.
Covetousness debaseth a man's spirit. Tillotson.
Synonyms—Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.