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Avidity vs Avarice - What's the difference?

avidity | avarice |

As nouns the difference between avidity and avarice

is that avidity is greediness; strong appetite while avarice is excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

avidity

English

Noun

(-)
  • Greediness; strong appetite.
  • Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
  • :
  • *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

    avarice

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
  • Inordinate desire for some supposed good.

    • Synonyms

    * avariciousness * See also

    Related terms

    * avaricious, avariciously

    Anagrams

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