Definitions for avidity

avidity a·vid·i·ty

Spelling: [uh-vid-i-tee]
IPA: /əˈvɪd ɪ ti/

Avidity is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in avidity (adiitvy).

Definitions for avidity

noun

  1. eagerness; greediness.
  2. enthusiasm or dedication.

Origin of avidity

1400-50; late Middle English avidite Middle French Latin aviditās. See avid, -ity

Examples for avidity

At 'beautiful Vienne,' Martial boasted that his works were read with avidity.

He seizes the project with avidity, and offers to supply me with a hammer for my work.

A book of thrilling interest; one that can not fail to be read with avidity.

Still shrinking from his nearness she had ended by listening to him with avidity.

It was upon this last point that I seized with most avidity.

At five years of age children will generally learn with avidity.

Their disunion, the consequence of their avidity, saved it from ruin, but not from pillage.

They will be read with avidity in the North and in the South, and throughout Europe.

Roderic surveyed his victim with an eye of avidity and triumph.

If his avidity was an act, Brooks should immediately move to Hollywood and collect his Academy Awards.

Word Value for avidity
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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