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Avid vs Impassioned - What's the difference?

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Avid is a related term of impassioned.


As adjectives the difference between avid and impassioned

is that avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy while impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

avid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
    • I'm an avid reader.
  • * 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
    • We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

    Derived terms

    * avidly * avidity

    Anagrams

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    impassioned

    English

    Alternative forms

    *empassioned

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
  • *:She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […].
  • *1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , VI:
  • *:The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.