Meaning of AVIDITY
| Pronunciation: | | u'viditee
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| | Definition: | | [n] a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something |
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| | Synonyms: | | avidness, eagerness, keenness |
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| | See Also: | | ardor, ardour, elan, enthusiasm, zeal | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*vid"i*ty\, n. [L. aviditas, fr. avidus: cf. F.
avidit['e]. See {Avid}.]
Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of
desire; as, to eat with avidity.
His books were received and read with avidity.
--Milward.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The strength of a bond between an antibody and its antigen. Similar to affinity among enzymes and their substrates. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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