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avidity

noun
/əˈvɪdɪti/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from aviditās
  2. derived from avidite
  3. inherited from avidite

Definitions

  1. Greediness

    Greediness; strong appetite.

  2. Eagerness

    Eagerness; intenseness of desire.

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for avidity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA