noun

• Extreme greed for wealth or material possessions; avarice.

  ‘He portrays them as deeply divided, because their pleonexia leaves them dissatisfied and full of self-hatred.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Because we stand to lose more than we could gain from unbridled pleonexia we have entered into a compact neither to do nor to allow injustice.’
  • ‘He presents pleonexia as a first principle of human nature.’
  • ‘Pleonexia is associated with the rational part of the soul.’
  • ‘When a man has pleonexia in his heart he loses sight of God in a mad desire to get.’

  Synonyms

  avarice, greediness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, graspingness, cupidity, avidity, possessiveness, materialism