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avidity

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun avidity has 1 sense

avidity(n = noun.feeling) avidness, eagerness, keenness - a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something; Array

is a kind of enthusiasm

has particulars: ardor, ardour, elan, zeal

Derived form adjective avid₂

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avidity, n. [L. aviditas, fr. avidus: cf. F. avidité. See Avid.].

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. [1913 Webster]

"His books were received and read with avidity." [1913 Webster]

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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

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avidity

Greed

N greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous, greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous.

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