Avid vs Admire - What's the difference?

As an adjective avid

is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.

to be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

(en adjective)

enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy

I'm an avid reader.

* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

* avidly * avidity

(admir)

(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

*, II.2.4:

The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].

* Fuller

examples rather to be admired than imitated

To regard with wonder and delight.

to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;

to estimate or prize highly.

to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape

(terms derived from admire) * admirable * admirer * admiration * admirative

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