the.com/covetousness
Wanting what your neighbor has, minus any plan to earn it yourself.
means An excessive, often resentful desire for someone else's possessions, status, or luck.
from From Old French 'coveitier' (to covet, desire), tracing back to Latin 'cupiditas' and the verb 'cupere,' meaning to long for or desire strongly — the same root that gives us 'cupid' and 'cupidity.' The '-ousness' suffix was bolted on in Middle English to turn the craving into a settled character trait, the kind preachers could point to from a pulpit.
- top ten status
- gets its own commandment, right after murder
- targets desire not object
- bans wanting the thing, not just stealing it
- root meaning
- from Latin cupere, to desire intensely
- modern alias
- advertising calls it aspiration instead