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Cupidity is a very strong wish to have things, especially money, land, or other people's stuff. It is a formal, rather word — you will meet it in stories and serious writing about greed, not in everyday chat. Someone full of cupidity is not just wanting something; they want it so much that it starts to look ugly. It comes from Latin for 'strong desire'. Cupid, the little love god, comes from the same Latin family — though actually Cupid's desire is love, and cupidity's desire is usually money. Do not mix the two.
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組成From French cupidité, from Latin cupiditās ('strong desire'), from cupidus ('keen, desirous'). Compare Cupid.
同家族的字
- Cupidsame Latin cupidus, 'desiring': Cupid is desire as love; cupidity is desire as greed
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cupiditynoun/kjuːˈpɪdəti/
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。