avidity

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French avidite (French avidité), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aviditās (“avidity, covetousness”).

Noun

avidity (usually uncountable, plural avidities)

1. Greediness; strong appetite.
2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire.

   to eat with avidity

   • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience:

     Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity, / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.

   • Template:RQ:Vance Nobody

     Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

3. (biochemistry) The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.

Synonyms

• (intenseness of desire): eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, liveliness

Translations

greediness; strong appetite

• Bulgarian: лакомост (lakomost), ненаситност (bg) (nenasitnost), алчност (bg) (alčnost)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: avidità (it) f
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• Romanian: lăcomie (ro) f, aviditate (ro) f
• Russian: а́лчность (ru) f (álčnostʹ), жа́дность (ru) f (žádnostʹ)

eagerness; intenseness of desire

• Interlingue:
• Italian: avidità (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: aviditate (ro) f
• Russian: усе́рдие (ru) n (usérdije), энерги́чность (ru) f (energíčnostʹ)