avidity
Greedy pursuit's fuel
Avidity is eager enthusiasm or intense desire for something.
Someone who pursues a hobby with avidity throws themselves into it wholeheartedly.
The word often appears in contexts involving intellectual or sensory pleasures: She read the novel with avidity or His avidity for new experiences took him around the world.
In biochemistry, avidity has a technical sense referring to the overall strength of binding between antibodies and antigens.
Intense eager enjoyment
- keennessSharpness of perception
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- zealIntense driving devotion
impatience · excitement · anticipation · yearning · hunger · thirst · aspiration · ambition
Intense emotional warmth
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
love · desire · adoration · attachment · fondness · fixation · fanaticism · mania
Excessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
- graspingGreedy for wealth
possessiveness · cupidity · voracity · ravenousness · hoarding · materialism · selfishness · gluttony
Forceful emotional passion
- fervencyIntense emotional warmth
- fiercenessIntense aggressive quality
- forcefulnessPowerful assertive quality
- vigorActive physical strength
strength · depth · extremity · concentration · potency · urgency · acuteness · sharpness
Pull toward something
- fondnessWarm liking or affection
- likingPositive inclination toward
- inclinationDisposition toward something
- predilectionPreexisting preference or bias
proclivity · penchant · partiality · preference · taste · appreciation · appetite · relish
enthusiasm
Intense eager enjoyment
zeal · impatience · excitement · anticipation · yearning · hunger · thirst · aspiration · ambition · motivation
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
infatuation · love · desire · adoration · attachment · fondness · fixation · fanaticism · mania · captivation
covetousness
Excessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
grasping · possessiveness · cupidity · voracity · ravenousness · hoarding · materialism · selfishness · gluttony · mercenariness
vehemence
Forceful emotional passion
- fervencyIntense emotional warmth
- fiercenessIntense aggressive quality
- forcefulnessPowerful assertive quality
vigor · strength · depth · extremity · concentration · potency · urgency · acuteness · sharpness · heightening
attraction
Pull toward something
- fondnessWarm liking or affection
- likingPositive inclination toward
- inclinationDisposition toward something
predilection · proclivity · penchant · partiality · preference · taste · appreciation · appetite · relish · weakness
- greedgreed, covetousness, cupidity, materialism, misers
- excitementexcitement, enthusiasm, eagerness, exhilaration, thrill
- serologyserum, antibody, antigen, titer, seropositive
- immunoassaysantigen test, lateral flow test, EIA, VDRL test, Wassermann test
- Molecular Forcesvan der Waals, hydrogen bond, hydrogen bonds, hydrogen bonding, dipole-dipole
avidityindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · disinterest · unconcern · detachment · nonchalance
aviditygenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · magnanimity · openhandedness · contentment · bountifulness