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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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grǣdignes

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

Syn. – Ravenousness; voracity; eagerness; avidity.

Noun.

Keenness of appetite for food or drink; ravenousness; voracity.

Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness.

Ardent desire.

greediness ‎(uncountable)

The state of being greedy; greed.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
  Thereto the body of a dog she had, / Full of fell ravin and fierce greedinesse […].