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CUPIDITY
Definition of CUPIDITY
noun
Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CUPIDITY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
noun
An eager desire to possess something; inordinate desire; immoderate craving, especially for wealth or power; greed.
noun
Specifically, sexual love.
noun
Synonyms Covetousness, Cupidity, etc. (see avarice), craving, hankering, grasping, lust for wealth, etc.
Where it comes from
From French cupidité, from Latin cupiditās (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
CUPIDITY in a sentence
“To suggest, as your comment seems to, that ALL opposition to the stimulus bill must be based upon Republican cupidity is simply silly but typical of the hysteria being used to sell this ill considered and destructive indulgence. zyxw Says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Nelson: Hair-Splitting in Defense of Bad Policy is No Vice, 2009
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CUPIDITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 249 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CUPIDITY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CDIIPTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CUPIDITY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CUPIDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found CUPIDITY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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