covetousness

Other forms of covetousness

plural

covetousnesses·

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 covetousness

What does covetousness mean?

covetousness means "an envious eagerness to possess something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in covetousness?

covetousness has 4 syllables: co-ve-tou-sness. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for covetousness?

Close synonyms include avarice, avariciousness, cupidity, avarice, greed. 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 covetousness a common word?

covetousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.