English-Thai Dictionary
avidity
N ความปรารถนา อย่างแรงกล้า ความกระหาย อยากได้
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
AVIDITY
n.[L. aviditas, from avidus, and this from aveo, to desire, to have appetite; Heb. to desire, or covet. ] 1. Greediness; strong appetite; applied to the senses:
2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire; applied to the mind.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
AVIDITY
A *vid "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. aviditas, fr. avidus: cf. F. avidité. See Avid. ]
Defn: Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.
New American Oxford Dictionary
avidity
a vid i ty |ˈəviditē ˈvɪdədi | ▶noun extreme eagerness or enthusiasm: he read detective stories with avidity. • Biochemistry the overall strength of binding between an antibody and an antigen. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French avidité or Latin aviditas, from avidus ‘eager, greedy. ’
Oxford Dictionary
avidity
avid |ity |əˈvɪdɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 keen interest or enthusiasm. 2 Biochemistry the overall strength of binding between an antibody and an antigen. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French avidité or Latin aviditas, from avidus ‘eager, greedy ’.
Oxford Thesaurus
avidity
avidity noun enthusiasm, keenness, eagerness, avidness, ardour, fervour, passion, zeal, zealousness, fanaticism, voracity, voraciousness; appetite, hunger, thirst; rare fervency, ardency, passionateness. ANTONYMS indifference, apathy.
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