avidity
eagerness; greediness.
enthusiasm or dedication.
Origin of avidity
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How to use avidity in a sentence
If his avidity was an act, Brooks should immediately move to Hollywood and collect his Academy Awards.
I'm Not Country or Pop. I'm Just Pure Garth Brooks. | David Masciotra | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was radioactive to those who once valued his political counsel and editorial avidity.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine | Clive Irving | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was like one standing denied in the Street of Abundance; she had an avidity of the eye for even love's reflection.
Hilda | Sarah Jeanette DuncanThis resembled the old bilge-water of a ship for foulness, but both men and oxen drank of it with avidity.
Robert Moffat | David J. DeaneTheir eyes fixed, their mouths agape, their hands clasped, they listened with increasing avidity to the Gascon adventurer.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne Sue
As they were adapted to the capacity of all classes of persons, they were eagerly sought after, and read with avidity.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeAccording to M. C. Courrire, it was seized upon with avidity and produced a profound sensation.
My Religion | Leo Tolstoy
British Dictionary definitions for avidity
/ (əˈvɪdɪtɪ) /
the quality or state of being avid
eagerness
greed; avarice
chem
the strength of an acid or base in proportion to its degree of dissociation
another term for affinity (def. 6b)
immunol a measure of antigen-to-antibody binding, based on the rate of formation of the complex
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