EGAVE

avidity

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

avidness eagerness keenness greed edacity avarice appetency cupidity appetite pleonexia

Often followed by

of for with and to by the as in

Word family

avidities

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