avidity
Americannoun
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eagerness; greediness.
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enthusiasm or dedication.
Etymology
Origin of avidity
1400–50; late Middle English avidite < Middle French < Latin aviditās. See avid, -ity
Example Sentences
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As the dance’s “Odd Man Out,” John Harnage, impressive all season, embodied his choreography’s feisty resistance with avidity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
The researchers further refined their TIL selection process by applying a secondary algorithmic filter to screen for only those tumor-reactive T-cells with "high avidity" -- that is, those that bind strongly to tumor antigens.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2024
“The Yanomami are paying the price with their health and their very lives for our society’s relentless avidity for gold,” said Navarro.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023
The avidity depends on the number of identical binding sites on the antigen being detected, as well as other physical and chemical factors.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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