Avidity vs Greedy - What's the difference?
avidity | greedy |
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.
Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
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, title= Prone to overeat.
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As a noun avidity
is greediness; strong appetite.As an adjective greedy is
having greed; consumed by selfish desires.avidity
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* (intenseness of desire) eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, livelinessgreedy
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(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
