What is the difference between avidity and greed?
avidity | greed |
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.
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A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
As nouns the difference between avidity and greed
is that avidity is greediness; strong appetite while greed is a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.avidity
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(-)Synonyms
* (intenseness of desire) eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, livelinessgreed
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- His greed was his undoing.
- What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.