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Acidity vs Avidity - What's the difference?

acidity | avidity |

As nouns the difference between acidity and avidity

is that acidity is the quality or state of being acid while avidity is greediness; strong appetite.

acidity

English

Noun

(acidities)
  • The quality or state of being acid
  • The quality of sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste, as in the acidity of lemon juice.
  • Empty stomachs lead to acidity and leave a sour taste in the mouth.
  • (pathology) Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.
  • Antonyms

    * alkalinity

    Anagrams

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    avidity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Greediness; strong appetite.
  • Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
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  • *1881 , , :
  • *:Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity , / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
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  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  • (lb) The measure of the synergism of the strength individual interactions between proteins.
  • Synonyms

    * (intenseness of desire) eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, liveliness