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Avidness vs Avidity - What's the difference?

avidness | avidity |

As nouns the difference between avidness and avidity

is that avidness is the characteristic of being avid while avidity is greediness; strong appetite.

avidness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic of being avid.

    • 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