Related Searches
Nearby Words
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To avidity
:10
:09
:08
:07
:06
:05
:04
:03
:02
:01
Avidity
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example Sentences
- Now, the pressures that might impel a person to such an avidity could be made considerably affecting.
- Rai's avidity leads him into drug dealing, an activity he conceals from his friends.
- Researchers have traced this avidity to the hamster's natural habits.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| avidity (əˈvɪdɪtɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the quality or state of being avid |
| 2. | a. eagerness |
| b. greed; avarice | |
| 3. | chem |
| a. the strength of an acid or base in proportion to its degree of dissociation | |
| b. another term for affinity | |
| 4. | immunol a measure of antigen-to-antibody binding, based on the rate of formation of the complex |
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
avidity
mid-15c., from O.Fr. avidite "avidity, greed," from L. aviditatem (nom. aviditas), noun of quality from avidus (see avid).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.