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Avidity vs Alertness - What's the difference?

avidity | alertness | Related terms |

Avidity is a related term of alertness.


As nouns the difference between avidity and alertness

is that avidity is greediness; strong appetite while alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

avidity

English

Noun

(-)
  • Greediness; strong appetite.
  • Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
  • :
  • *1881 , , :
  • *:Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity , / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
  • *
  • *: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

    alertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.