Greed
Etymology
A back-formation from the older adjective "greedy," from Old English "grǣdig" (voracious, hungry), of Germanic origin. The bodily image of ravenous hunger broadened into the hunger for having.
noun · /GREED/
An excessive, restless desire for more — especially wealth or possessions.
What it names
Names wanting past the point of enough — the appetite with no natural stopping place.
Example
It wasn’t need that drove the last acquisition, just greed dressed up as a growth strategy.
Related idea
Ambition aims at achievement and can be satisfied by it; greed aims at accumulation and cannot. One wants to do or become; the other simply wants more.