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[ uh-vid-i-tee ] / əˈvɪd ɪ ti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR avidity ON THESAURUS.COM
nouneagerness; greediness. enthusiasm or dedication. Origin of avidity1400–50; late Middle English avidite<Middle French <Latin aviditās.See avid, -ity Words nearby avidityAvicenna, avicularium, aviculture, avid, avidin, avidity, avidya, Aviemore, avifauna, avigation, Avignon Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for avidityIf 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|DAILY BEAST He found an opportunity of commencing the study of Greek, and seized it with avidity. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch|Petrarch He started crunching the crackers with avidity, eyeing me furtively all the time as I stood at the telephone. The Red Symbol|John Ironside The latter we seized upon with avidity, as being the first we had met with. A Kut Prisoner|H. C. W. Bishop
She nursed her with unremitting care, and seemed to seize with avidity the temporary opportunity of escaping from herself. A Sicilian Romance|Ann Radcliffe Master Fernald seized the parcel with avidity, and straightway began devouring its contents. The Princess and Joe Potter|James Otis
British Dictionary definitions for avidity
nounthe quality or state of being avid 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 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to aviditylonging, avarice, cupidity, fervor, enthusiasm, greediness |