Crossword-Solution: AVIDITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Avidity | n. | Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “AVIDITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| quality or state of being avid | 1 answer |
| Profiteer's vice | 2 answers |
| Extreme eagerness. | 2 answers |
| vampirism | 2 answers |
| Cupidity | 5 answers |
| Greediness | 5 answers |
| ACQUISITIVENESS | 11 answers |
| Avarice | 21 answers |
| Rapacity | 27 answers |
| Greed | 29 answers |
| Ardor | 38 answers |
| Appetite | 42 answers |
| Lust | 65 answers |
| Ambition | 65 answers |
| Longing | 67 answers |
| Eagerness | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVIDITY (5)
This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.
But wine must give me strength to tell the horrors of my tale.” She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet.
Sherlock Holmes, you will have no reason to complain of niggardly treatment.” My friend rubbed his thin hands together with an appearance of avidity which was a surprise to me, who knew his frugal tastes.
And as she still stood reflecting, and looking at him with an eye which, in spite of her desire to treat this avidity of patronage as a very old story, betrayed an almost touching incredulity, he was afraid he had offended her.
Felix, while he plied his brush, told her a great many stories, and she listened with charmed avidity.
Quotes with AVIDITY (3)
The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity; to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power.
And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.
The time has come when I must divest Bimala of all the ideal decorations with which I decked her. It was owing to my own weakness that I indulged in such idolatry. I was too greedy. I created an angel of Bimala, in order to exaggerate my own enjoyment. But Bimala is what she is. It is preposterous to expect that she should assume the role of an angel for my pleasure. The Creator is under no obligation to supply me with angels, just because I have an avidity for imaginary perfection.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1961–1978).