avarice

Other forms of avarice

plural

avarices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about avarice

What does avarice mean?

avarice means "reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avarice?

avarice has 3 syllables: av-a-rice. The stress falls on "av". In IPA it is /ˈævɚəs/.

What is another word for avarice?

Close synonyms include greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia, avariciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avarice a common word?

avarice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.