greed
known also as avarice, and identified in church tradition as one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Though typified by the picture of over-eating and other self-serving material accumulation, it may equally be expressed in the ‘over-hogging’ of attention and affection from others. Release from it comes the more easily once it is recognised for what it is by the person who is distorted by it. Though more commonly perceived as an individual condition, critics of the ‘developed’ world suggest that it is widely pervasive within that wider culture.
See also:
sin