Definition of Avidity

Avidity

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

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Avidity Quotations

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Ivan Turgenev

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Avidity Translations

avidity in German is Begierde

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