Voracious vs Avidity - What's the difference?
voracious | avidity |
Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
* 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:
* 1867 , , ch. 45:
* 1910 , , "The Human Drift":
Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).
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* 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, "
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.
As an adjective voracious
is wanting or devouring great quantities of food.As a noun avidity is
greediness; strong appetite.voracious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
- The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
- Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
- If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:
- Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.