Cupidity

Etymology

From Latin "cupiditas" (eager desire, passion), from "cupere" (to desire). The same root gives us Cupid — "Cupido," desire personified — so the word for lust after love and the word for lust after money are close cousins.

noun · /kyoo-PID-i-tee/
A strong, grasping desire for wealth or possessions.
What it names
Names greed in its bookish, formal register — useful when you want the vice named coldly and precisely.
Example
The estate dispute exposed a cupidity in the family that no amount of grief could disguise.
Related idea
Covetousness fixes on a particular thing someone else has; cupidity is the general, undirected hunger for gain.