What does avidity mean?
Avidity means Greediness; strong appetite..
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/əˈvɪdɪti/ · noun
Greediness; strong appetite..
to eat with avidity
Still, there was an inquiry after me, the 'who was she?' that never can, that never must be answered; and it was pursued with only the more avidity, because my accomplishments proved that I had been expensively educated, and nature had stamped me with her own kindly distinctions.
Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity, / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
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 flavor.
Use avidity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Avidity means Greediness; strong appetite..
Common synonyms include eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, liveliness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to eat with avidity
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