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Fervency vs Avidity - What's the difference?

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Fervency is a related term of avidity.


As nouns the difference between fervency and avidity

is that fervency is the state of being fervent while avidity is greediness; strong appetite.

fervency

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being fervent

    • avidity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Greediness; strong appetite.
  • Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
  • :
  • *1881 , , :
  • *:Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity , / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
  • *
  • *: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