avarice vs greed

avarice and greed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
avarice	Yes	No	No	No
greed	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, avarice and greed are synonyms defined as:

avarice and greed: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Other synonyms of avarice include avaritia, covetousness, rapacity.

As nouns, greed is a hypernym of avarice; that is, greed is a word with a broader meaning than avarice:

avarice: extreme greed for material wealth
greed: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

avarice (noun)	greed (noun)
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)	reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
extreme greed for material wealth	excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves