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Earnestness vs Avidity - What's the difference?

earnestness | avidity | Related terms |

Earnestness is a related term of avidity.


As nouns the difference between earnestness and avidity

is that earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness while avidity is greediness; strong appetite.

earnestness

English

Noun

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  • The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

    • avidity

    English

    Noun

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