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Definition: Avidity |
AvidityNoun1. A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "avidity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | The strength of the interaction of an antiserum with a multivalent antigen. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The frequency of fishing activity, measured as number of days on which fishing trips were made. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AviditySynonyms: avidness (n), eagerness (n), keenness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greed | Noun: covetousness, ravenousness; Adjective: venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition); desire. |
Greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Avidity |
| English words defined with "avidity": Mercaptan. (references) |
| "Avidity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Avidity" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
avidity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "avidity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | begerigheid (alacrity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness), begeerte (covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, want, wish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lakmi (covetousness, cupidity, eagerness, envy, gluttony, greed, greediness), etje (anxiety, cupidity, desire, drought, eagerness, hankering, hunger, thirst, voracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طمع (cupidity, greed, itching palm, longing, lust for, pretentiousness, rapacity, slaver over), جشع (an itching palm, avarice, avaricious, cupidity, grasping, greed, greedy, mercenary, predatory, rapacious, rapacity, ravening), شره (avid, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, hoggish, lickerish, pig, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | готовност (alacrity, eagerness, forwardness, goodwill, preparedness, readiness, trim, willingness), ненаситност (gluttony, greed, greediness, insatiability, voracity), жадност, алчност (avarice, cupidity, eagerness, mammon, miserliness, rapacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chtivost (lust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aviditet, arbejdsaktivitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aviditeit, graagte (alacrity, appetite, covetousness, eagerness, greediness), frequentie van visdagen, begerigheid (alacrity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness), begeerte (alacrity, covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, want, wish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | avido (covetousness, eagerness, greediness), avideco (covetousness, eagerness, greediness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرخوری (Glut, Gorge, Gut), حرص (Avarice, Greed), طمع (Avarice, Greed), ازمندی , از (Avarice, By, Greed, In, Of, Rapacity, Soften), اشتیاق (Anxiety, Appetite, Enthusiasm, Heat, Hunger, Solicitude, Thirst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aviditeetti, kalastuskertojen määrä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avidité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | begierde (appetency, avidness, covetousness, cupidity, desire, longing, lust, lustfulness, yearning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ισχύς δεσμού αντιγόνου-αντισώματος, απληστία (covetousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לו"טות (ardour), תאבון (appetite, stomach), שוקקות, בעל ות (eagerness, proprietorship), רעבת ות (gluttony, greed, hunger, voracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mohóság (covetousness, eagerness, greed, greediness, zeal), kapzsiság (avarice, covetousness, greed, greediness, rapacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kegemaran (hobby, indulgence, keeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avidit (eagerness, greed, greediness, lust, piggishness, ravenousness, thirst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jollysid (greed, immoderation, rapaciousness, voraciousness), jiooghid (gluttony, greed, insatiability, voraciousness), jeeanid (ardour, assiduity, eagerness, earnestness, enthusiasm, fervour, intenseness, proneness, vehemence, zeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avidityay avidez (alacrity, covetousness, eagerness, greed, greediness, thirst), cobiça (alacrity, covetousness, greediness, longing, yen). (various references) aviditate (eagerness, rapacity), pasiune (Ardor, ardour, avocation, fervour, fire, flame, glow, hobby, interest, itch, love, passion, pathos). (various references) жадность (avarice, covetousness, cupidity, edacity, greed, greediness, insatiability, piggishness, rapacity), алчность (avarice, cupidity, greed). (various references) žudnja (craving, eagerness, hanker, hankering, hunger, longing, lust, thirst, yen). (various references) deseo (covetousness, desideratum, desire, eagerness, greediness, I wish, want, will, wish, yearning), avidez (greed, greediness, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness). (various references) begär (appetite, covetousness, craving, desire, eagerness, greediness, longing, lust, yen). (various references) açgözlülük (avarice, covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, greed, greediness, insatiability, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity), istek (adjuration, alacrity, appetite, aspiration, bent, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, hunger, instance, intentness, mind, pleasure, propensity, readiness, relish, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, urge, want, will, wish, zeal), hırs (ambition, anger, cupidity, desire, fire, forwardness, glow, greed, greediness, mammon, mettle, passion, rage, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity). (various references) жадібність (avarice, bulimy, covetousness, cupidity, edacity, greediness, rapacity), жадоба (appetite, avarice, craving, cupidity, desire, greed, yearn, yearning). (various references) sự thèm thu"ng sự tham lam, sự thèm khát (covetousness, lushy), sự khao khát (hankering, hunger, thirst). (various references) awydd (appetite, desire, eagerness), awch (appetite, ardor, edge, relish, zest), gwanc (greed, voracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "avidity": gravidity. (additional references) | |
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"Avidity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agitity, Aidit, airity, asidity, auidity, Avadi, avility, ovinity, Xviiith. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "avidity" (pronounced 'A*vid"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: davit. | |
-3 letters: adit, avid, davy, dita, diva, tidy, tivy, vita. | |
-4 letters: aid, ait, day, dit, ivy, tad, tav, vat, via, yid. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, at, ay, id, it, ta, ti, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-t-v-y" | |
+1 letter: validity, vapidity. | |
+2 letters: gravidity. | |
+3 letters: adaptivity, additively, additivity, divinatory, invalidity. | |
+4 letters: drivability, evidentiary, nonvalidity, oxidatively, vindicatory, vineyardist. | |
+5 letters: advisability, derivatively, driveability, evidentially, indicatively, meditatively, veridicality, vineyardists. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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