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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

aviditas

, fr.

avidus

: cf. F.

avidité

. See

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire;

as, to eat with

avidity

His books were received and read with

avidity

Milward.

Noun.

[L. aviditas, from avidus, and this from aveo, to desire, to have appetite; Heb. to desire, or covet.]

Greediness; strong appetite; applied to the senses:

Eagerness; intenseness of desire; applied to the mind.