Definitions for cupidity

cupidity cu·pid·i·ty

Spelling: [kyoo-pid-i-tee]
IPA: /kyuˈpɪd ɪ ti/

Cupidity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in cupidity (cdiiptuy).

Definitions for cupidity

noun

  1. eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something; greed; avarice.

Origin of cupidity

1400-50; late Middle English cupidite (Middle French) Latin cupiditās, equivalent to cupid(us) eager, desirous (cup(ere) to desire + -idus -id4) + -itās

Examples for cupidity

“I am that,” exclaimed the other, with a gleam of cupidity in his shifty eyes.

But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.

Romance, more than cupidity, is what attracts the gold-brick investor.

There was none of the cupidity of women for jewels in her look.

The cupidity of the shrewd and unscrupulous and the caprice of the shallow and frivolous.

He was about to let her carry out her threat if she saw fit when his cupidity overcame him.

That the cupidity of Rasputin knew no bounds I was well aware.

The spirit of revenge with an American Indian is tenfold stronger than cupidity.

A new look flashed into her eyes, not cupidity, but purpose.

The curses of Heaven light on the cupidity that has destroyed such a race.

Word Value for cupidity
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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