avidity

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avidity

  • /əˈvɪdɪti/

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From Middle English avidite, from Old French avidite (modern French avidité), from Latin aviditās (“avidity, covetousness”), equivalent to avid + -ity.

noun avidities

  1. uncountable, usually Greediness; strong appetite.
  2. uncountable, usually Eagerness; intenseness of desire. to eat with avidity
  3. uncountable, usually The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.

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