Definition of avidity in English:

avidity

noun əˈvɪdɪtiəˈvɪdədi

mass noun

1Keen interest or enthusiasm.
he read detective stories with avidity
Example sentencesExamples
- It is certainly true that there is not the enthusiasm, the appetite, the avidity for film that there was when I first began writing about it.
- With a tractable reading list in front of me my impatience with reading turned quickly into avidity.
- The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
- Marxists say it's not possible to change the rules, that capitalism will always engender its own crises, that its own avidity, greed, and iron laws will be its undoing.
- Since this is not a project I've followed with any avidity I was not aware that the fertilizing occurred yesterday.
- She's been empty inside, with nothing but a heart burning with anger and avidity.
- He plunges with avidity into the delights of inner-city Glebe and the University of Sydney in its heyday.
- Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals.
- A fox's head on an old lady's boa had also been seized with avidity by a foxhound, under the impression that he had at last found his hereditary enemy.
- Molecular biologists enter the story, but mainly those with an avidity for technology and an appetite for large scale.
- Right now I don't know whose appetite I monitor with more avidity, hers or Riff's.
- Partisans on both sides study the fluctuating daily polls with the avidity of baseball fans following the electrifying playoffs.
- Women may write books of poetry, travels, &c. and they will be read with avidity.
- This is the story: there is an avidity of sympathy and suffering around at the moment, and remembering the Holocaust is an attempt to lock on to that.
- In such an exhibition, one can see how traditional art teaching methods have become fairly redundant, and the avidity with which the tools of new media are used to communicate.
- Here an avidity for new and different species of flora embraces interesting species of fauna as well, both of the four-footed and two-footed kind.
- But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work.
- It appears to be inevitable that abuses will have occurred, given the avidity with which behavior modification has been sought after.
- A spirit of enquiry is abroad among the Chinese, and there is a class of students, by no means small in number, who receive with avidity instruction on scientific matters from the West.
- It represents an avidity to produce a grand modern opera rather than an actual vision of one.
Synonyms
enthusiasm, keenness, eagerness, avidness, ardour, fervour, passion, zeal, zealousness, fanaticism, voracity, voraciousness
appetite, hunger, thirst
rare fervency, ardency, passionateness
2Biochemistry
The overall strength of binding between an antibody and an antigen.
Example sentencesExamples
- Because of the low avidity of the antibody, HSF1 needed to be enriched prior to western blot.
- When they are available and a single component is of interest, two monoclonal antibodies of high avidity directed to different epitopes on an allergenic molecule are the most suitable.
- If infection is established (infection greater than about 4 months), this agent will have a lesser ability to disrupt the complexes because of high antibody avidity (binding strength).
- This patient was therefore reassured that she had not had primary rubella, as she had a history of rubella vaccination and high avidity rubella specific IgG was detected.
- To improve the diagnosis of illness caused by B 19 and to discriminate primary from secondary infection, a protein denaturing assay for avidity of erythrovirus-specific IgG antibodies or measurement of IgG subclass, can be used.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French avidité or Latin aviditas, from avidus 'eager, greedy'.

Rhymes

acidity, acridity, aridity, cupidity, flaccidity, fluidity, frigidity, humidity, hybridity, insipidity, intrepidity, limpidity, liquidity, lividity, lucidity, morbidity, placidity, putridity, quiddity, rabidity, rancidity, rapidity, rigidity, solidity, stolidity, stupidity, tepidity, timidity, torpidity, torridity, turgidity, validity, vapidity

Definition of avidity in US English:

avidity

nounəˈvidədēəˈvɪdədi

1Extreme eagerness or enthusiasm.
he read detective stories with avidity
Example sentencesExamples
- Since this is not a project I've followed with any avidity I was not aware that the fertilizing occurred yesterday.
- Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals.
- She's been empty inside, with nothing but a heart burning with anger and avidity.
- This is the story: there is an avidity of sympathy and suffering around at the moment, and remembering the Holocaust is an attempt to lock on to that.
- He plunges with avidity into the delights of inner-city Glebe and the University of Sydney in its heyday.
- Women may write books of poetry, travels, &c. and they will be read with avidity.
- It represents an avidity to produce a grand modern opera rather than an actual vision of one.
- It appears to be inevitable that abuses will have occurred, given the avidity with which behavior modification has been sought after.
- Marxists say it's not possible to change the rules, that capitalism will always engender its own crises, that its own avidity, greed, and iron laws will be its undoing.
- Here an avidity for new and different species of flora embraces interesting species of fauna as well, both of the four-footed and two-footed kind.
- With a tractable reading list in front of me my impatience with reading turned quickly into avidity.
- A spirit of enquiry is abroad among the Chinese, and there is a class of students, by no means small in number, who receive with avidity instruction on scientific matters from the West.
- Molecular biologists enter the story, but mainly those with an avidity for technology and an appetite for large scale.
- Right now I don't know whose appetite I monitor with more avidity, hers or Riff's.
- Partisans on both sides study the fluctuating daily polls with the avidity of baseball fans following the electrifying playoffs.
- It is certainly true that there is not the enthusiasm, the appetite, the avidity for film that there was when I first began writing about it.
- A fox's head on an old lady's boa had also been seized with avidity by a foxhound, under the impression that he had at last found his hereditary enemy.
- But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work.
- The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
- In such an exhibition, one can see how traditional art teaching methods have become fairly redundant, and the avidity with which the tools of new media are used to communicate.
Synonyms
enthusiasm, keenness, eagerness, avidness, ardour, fervour, passion, zeal, zealousness, fanaticism, voracity, voraciousness
1. 1.1Biochemistry The overall strength of binding between an antibody and an antigen.
  Example sentencesExamples
  To improve the diagnosis of illness caused by B 19 and to discriminate primary from secondary infection, a protein denaturing assay for avidity of erythrovirus-specific IgG antibodies or measurement of IgG subclass, can be used.
  If infection is established (infection greater than about 4 months), this agent will have a lesser ability to disrupt the complexes because of high antibody avidity (binding strength).
  This patient was therefore reassured that she had not had primary rubella, as she had a history of rubella vaccination and high avidity rubella specific IgG was detected.
  When they are available and a single component is of interest, two monoclonal antibodies of high avidity directed to different epitopes on an allergenic molecule are the most suitable.
  Because of the low avidity of the antibody, HSF1 needed to be enriched prior to western blot.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French avidité or Latin aviditas, from avidus ‘eager, greedy’.

单词	avidity
释义	Definition of avidity in English: avidity noun əˈvɪdɪtiəˈvɪdədi mass noun 1Keen interest or enthusiasm. he read detective stories with avidity Example sentencesExamples It is certainly true that there is not the enthusiasm, the appetite, the avidity for film that there was when I first began writing about it. With a tractable reading list in front of me my impatience with reading turned quickly into avidity. The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med. Marxists say it's not possible to change the rules, that capitalism will always engender its own crises, that its own avidity, greed, and iron laws will be its undoing. Since this is not a project I've followed with any avidity I was not aware that the fertilizing occurred yesterday. She's been empty inside, with nothing but a heart burning with anger and avidity. He plunges with avidity into the delights of inner-city Glebe and the University of Sydney in its heyday. Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals. A fox's head on an old lady's boa had also been seized with avidity by a foxhound, under the impression that he had at last found his hereditary enemy. Molecular biologists enter the story, but mainly those with an avidity for technology and an appetite for large scale. Right now I don't know whose appetite I monitor with more avidity, hers or Riff's. Partisans on both sides study the fluctuating daily polls with the avidity of baseball fans following the electrifying playoffs. Women may write books of poetry, travels, &c. and they will be read with avidity. This is the story: there is an avidity of sympathy and suffering around at the moment, and remembering the Holocaust is an attempt to lock on to that. In such an exhibition, one can see how traditional art teaching methods have become fairly redundant, and the avidity with which the tools of new media are used to communicate. Here an avidity for new and different species of flora embraces interesting species of fauna as well, both of the four-footed and two-footed kind. But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work. It appears to be inevitable that abuses will have occurred, given the avidity with which behavior modification has been sought after. A spirit of enquiry is abroad among the Chinese, and there is a class of students, by no means small in number, who receive with avidity instruction on scientific matters from the West. It represents an avidity to produce a grand modern opera rather than an actual vision of one. Synonyms enthusiasm, keenness, eagerness, avidness, ardour, fervour, passion, zeal, zealousness, fanaticism, voracity, voraciousness appetite, hunger, thirst rare fervency, ardency, passionateness 2Biochemistry The overall strength of binding between an antibody and an antigen. Example sentencesExamples Because of the low avidity of the antibody, HSF1 needed to be enriched prior to western blot. When they are available and a single component is of interest, two monoclonal antibodies of high avidity directed to different epitopes on an allergenic molecule are the most suitable. If infection is established (infection greater than about 4 months), this agent will have a lesser ability to disrupt the complexes because of high antibody avidity (binding strength). This patient was therefore reassured that she had not had primary rubella, as she had a history of rubella vaccination and high avidity rubella specific IgG was detected. To improve the diagnosis of illness caused by B 19 and to discriminate primary from secondary infection, a protein denaturing assay for avidity of erythrovirus-specific IgG antibodies or measurement of IgG subclass, can be used. Origin Late Middle English: from French avidité or Latin aviditas, from avidus 'eager, greedy'. Rhymes acidity, acridity, aridity, cupidity, flaccidity, fluidity, frigidity, humidity, hybridity, insipidity, intrepidity, limpidity, liquidity, lividity, lucidity, morbidity, placidity, putridity, quiddity, rabidity, rancidity, rapidity, rigidity, solidity, stolidity, stupidity, tepidity, timidity, torpidity, torridity, turgidity, validity, vapidity Definition of avidity in US English: avidity nounəˈvidədēəˈvɪdədi 1Extreme eagerness or enthusiasm. he read detective stories with avidity Example sentencesExamples Since this is not a project I've followed with any avidity I was not aware that the fertilizing occurred yesterday. Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals. She's been empty inside, with nothing but a heart burning with anger and avidity. This is the story: there is an avidity of sympathy and suffering around at the moment, and remembering the Holocaust is an attempt to lock on to that. He plunges with avidity into the delights of inner-city Glebe and the University of Sydney in its heyday. Women may write books of poetry, travels, &c. and they will be read with avidity. It represents an avidity to produce a grand modern opera rather than an actual vision of one. It appears to be inevitable that abuses will have occurred, given the avidity with which behavior modification has been sought after. Marxists say it's not possible to change the rules, that capitalism will always engender its own crises, that its own avidity, greed, and iron laws will be its undoing. Here an avidity for new and different species of flora embraces interesting species of fauna as well, both of the four-footed and two-footed kind. With a tractable reading list in front of me my impatience with reading turned quickly into avidity. A spirit of enquiry is abroad among the Chinese, and there is a class of students, by no means small in number, who receive with avidity instruction on scientific matters from the West. Molecular biologists enter the story, but mainly those with an avidity for technology and an appetite for large scale. Right now I don't know whose appetite I monitor with more avidity, hers or Riff's. Partisans on both sides study the fluctuating daily polls with the avidity of baseball fans following the electrifying playoffs. It is certainly true that there is not the enthusiasm, the appetite, the avidity for film that there was when I first began writing about it. A fox's head on an old lady's boa had also been seized with avidity by a foxhound, under the impression that he had at last found his hereditary enemy. But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work. The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med. In such an exhibition, one can see how traditional art teaching methods have become fairly redundant, and the avidity with which the tools of new media are used to communicate. Synonyms enthusiasm, keenness, eagerness, avidness, ardour, fervour, passion, zeal, zealousness, fanaticism, voracity, voraciousness 1.1Biochemistry The overall strength of binding between an antibody and an antigen. Example sentencesExamples To improve the diagnosis of illness caused by B 19 and to discriminate primary from secondary infection, a protein denaturing assay for avidity of erythrovirus-specific IgG antibodies or measurement of IgG subclass, can be used. If infection is established (infection greater than about 4 months), this agent will have a lesser ability to disrupt the complexes because of high antibody avidity (binding strength). This patient was therefore reassured that she had not had primary rubella, as she had a history of rubella vaccination and high avidity rubella specific IgG was detected. When they are available and a single component is of interest, two monoclonal antibodies of high avidity directed to different epitopes on an allergenic molecule are the most suitable. Because of the low avidity of the antibody, HSF1 needed to be enriched prior to western blot. Origin Late Middle English: from French avidité or Latin aviditas, from avidus ‘eager, greedy’.
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