About The Word Avidity
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Avidity
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What's The Definition Of Avidity?
[n] a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
Synonyms | Synonyms for Avidity: avidness | eagerness | keenness Related Terms | Find terms related to Avidity: acquisitiveness | alacrity | animation | anxiety | anxiousness | appetite | avarice | avariciousness | avidness | breathless impatience | cheerful readiness | covetousness | cupidity | eagerness | elan | forwardness | frenzy of desire | fury of desire | gluttony | grasping | graspingness | greed | greediness | gust | gusto | hoggishness | impatience | incontinence | inordinate desire | insatiability | insatiable desire | intemperateness | itching palm | keen desire | keenness | life | liveliness | lust | overgreediness | piggishness | promptness | quickness | rapaciousness | rapacity | ravenousness | readiness | sordidness | spirit | swinishness | verve | vitality | vivacity | voraciousness | voracity | wolfishness | zest | zestfulness See Also | ardor | ardour | elan | enthusiasm | zeal Avidity In Webster's Dictionary \A*vid"i*ty\, n. [L. aviditas, fr. avidus: cf. F.
avidit['e]. See {Avid}.]
Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of
desire; as, to eat with avidity.
His books were received and read with avidity.
--Milward.
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