cupidity

noun

Etymology: From French cupidité, from Latin cupiditās (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.

1. Extreme greed, especially for wealth.

   “A bargain is a social evil; one man's loss, tempting another man's cupidity.”

   “Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.”