avidity

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. Emil Theodor Kocher

Microscopic organisms may have troublesome and destructive effects, but in themselves they can be be studied with interest and avidity. Oliver Lodge

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