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Avidity vs Aridity - What's the difference?

avidity | aridity |

As nouns the difference between avidity and aridity

is that avidity is greediness; strong appetite while aridity is a long term lack of rainfall or moisture.

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

    aridity

    English

    Noun

    (aridities)
  • A long term lack of rainfall or moisture.