avidly

In keen fashion

Avidly means with eager enthusiasm or keen interest.

Someone who reads avidly devours books.

A collector who avidly pursues rare items does so with intense dedication: She followed the trial avidly.

The word suggests not just interest but appetite—an almost hungry engagement with whatever holds attention.

eagerness

eagerly

With keen enthusiasm

fervently · zealously · excitedly · impatiently · hungrily · thirstily · voraciously · ravenously · greedily · desirously

interest

fascinated

Intensely absorbed and curious

spellbound · enthralled · rapt · absorbed · immersed · attentively · curiously · inquisitively · studiously

intensity

fervor

Intense emotional intensity

  • ardorIntense emotional warmth
  • passionIntense emotional drive
  • zealIntense driving devotion

gusto · relish · voracity · single-mindedness · obsessively · fanatically · compulsively · unwaveringly · doggedly · tirelessly

consumption

devoured

Ate hungrily and completely

inhaled · binged · read · watched · collected · followed · pursued · sought · gathered · accumulated

Opposites
intensity of enthusiasm/eagerness

avidlyhalfheartedly

Without real interest

unenthusiastically · apathetically · indifferently · listlessly · disinterestedly

emotional investment

avidlyimpassively

Without visible reaction

dispassionately · coldly · frigidly · detachedly · calmly

Family

avid, avidity

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G