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Omnivorous vs Avid - What's the difference?

omnivorous | avid |

As adjectives the difference between omnivorous and avid

is that omnivorous is having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor herbivorous while avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.

omnivorous

English

Adjective

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  • Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor herbivorous.
  • (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
    • 2003 Winchester, Simon , The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary , New York: Oxford University Press. p72:
  • :* He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]

    • Derived terms

    * omnivorousness

    Related terms

    * omnivore, carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous

    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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