Thesaurus / avidity
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
He found an opportunity of commencing the study of Greek, and seized it with avidity.
He started crunching the crackers with avidity, eyeing me furtively all the time as I stood at the telephone.
THE RED SYMBOLJOHN IRONSIDE
The latter we seized upon with avidity, as being the first we had met with.
A KUT PRISONERH. C. W. BISHOP
She nursed her with unremitting care, and seemed to seize with avidity the temporary opportunity of escaping from herself.
A SICILIAN ROMANCEANN RADCLIFFE
Master Fernald seized the parcel with avidity, and straightway began devouring its contents.
THE PRINCESS AND JOE POTTERJAMES OTIS
If piled in heaps they will quickly heat; but even then, if not too much decayed, cattle will eat them with avidity.
CABBAGES AND CAULIFLOWERS: HOW TO GROW THEMJAMES JOHN HOWARD GREGORY
We expect to see the time when we shall read the Elizabethan dramatists with avidity.
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWSW. D. HOWELLS
Yet he wished to listen to her, and already he was listening with avidity.
THE RED LILY, COMPLETEANATOLE FRANCE
This was a pleasant turn to give to my thoughts, and I took it with all the avidity of my peculiar temperament.
A DAY'S RIDECHARLES JAMES LEVER
Tom Tristram complained of his wife's avidity, and declared that he could never have a clear five minutes with his friend.
THE AMERICANHENRY JAMES
WORDS RELATED TO AVIDITY
- admiration
- ambition
- appetite
- ardor
- aspiration
- attraction
- avidity
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- craving
- craze
- cupidity
- devotion
- doting
- eagerness
- fancy
- fascination
- fervor
- fondness
- frenzy
- greed
- hankering
- hunger
- inclination
- infatuation
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- libido
- liking
- love
- lust
- mania
- motive
- need
- passion
- predilection
- proclivity
- propensity
- rapaciousness
- rapture
- ravenousness
- relish
- salacity
- solicitude
- thirst
- urge
- voracity
- will
- wish
- yearning
- admiration
- ambition
- appetite
- ardor
- aspiration
- attraction
- avidity
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- craving
- craze
- cupidity
- devotion
- doting
- eagerness
- fancy
- fascination
- fervor
- fondness
- frenzy
- greed
- hankering
- hunger
- inclination
- infatuation
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- libido
- liking
- love
- lust
- mania
- motive
- need
- passion
- predilection
- proclivity
- propensity
- rapaciousness
- rapture
- ravenousness
- relish
- salacity
- solicitude
- thirst
- urge
- voracity
- will
- wish
- yearning
- activity
- ardency
- ardor
- avidity
- conviction
- craze
- dash
- devotion
- eagerness
- earnestness
- ecstasy
- emotion
- energy
- exhilaration
- fad
- fanaticism
- feeling
- fervor
- fever
- fieriness
- fire
- flame
- flare
- frenzy
- fury
- gaiety
- glow
- go
- heat
- hilarity
- hobby
- impetuosity
- intensity
- interest
- joy
- joyfulness
- keenness
- life
- mania
- mirth
- nerve
- oomph
- orgasm
- passion
- pep
- rapture
- red heat
- relish
- snap
- spirit
- transport
- vehemence
- verve
- vim
- vivacity
- warmth
- zeal
- zealousness
- zest
- élan
- agitation
- anger
- annoyance
- ants in pants
- anxiety
- avidity
- disquietude
- eagerness
- edginess
- excitement
- expectancy
- fretfulness
- haste
- hastiness
- heat
- impetuosity
- intolerance
- irritability
- irritableness
- nervousness
- quick temper
- rashness
- restiveness
- restlessness
- shortness
- snappiness
- suspense
- uneasiness
- vehemence
- violence
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