Usually means: Desire for more than deserved.
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  1. pleonexia: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleonexia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleonexia: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pleonexia: Wordnik
  5. pleonexia: Wiktionary
  6. pleonexia: Dictionary.com
  7. Pleonexia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pleonexia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleonexia)

▸ noun:  Excessive or insatiable greed, avarice, covetousness, the desire to have more, a greedy desire for certain goods.

Similar:
greed, avarice, overgreediness, covetousness, avidity, cupidity, plutomania, overgreed, overplenitude, gluttony, more...

Opposite:
philanthropy, generosity, selflessness

Types:
greed, avarice, covetousness, acquisitiveness, appetite, desire, hunger, thirst, more...

Adjectives:
real, luxuriant, exorbitant, social, such, more

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Similar:
greed, avarice, overgreediness, covetousness, avidity, cupidity, plutomania, overgreed, overplenitude, gluttony, more...

Opposite:
philanthropy, generosity, selflessness

Types:
greed, avarice, covetousness, acquisitiveness, appetite, desire, hunger, thirst, more...

Adjectives:
real, luxuriant, exorbitant, social, such, more



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