What is the difference between avidity and avid?
avidity | avid | Derived terms |
Greediness; strong appetite.
Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
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*: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.
enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
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
(-)Synonyms
* (intenseness of desire) eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, livelinessavid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm an avid reader.
- 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.