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What is the difference between avidity and avid?

avidity | avid | Derived terms |

Avid is a derived term of avidity.



As a noun avidity

is greediness; strong appetite.

As an adjective avid is

enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.

avidity

English

Noun

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  • 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

    avid

    English

    Adjective

    (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.

    Derived terms

    * avidly * avidity

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