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  • noun The characteristic of being avid.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

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Examples

  • The Wall Street Journal's critic hailed his "sheer pictorial elegance," while criticizing the paintings as "grotesqueries with an avidness worthy of Barnum."

    Painter's 'Naked Portraits' Depicted Friends, Relatives Stephen Miller 2011

  • Even Charles Dickens, God love him, has a writing style that seems dated and can inspire more arduousness than avidness.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Even Charles Dickens, God love him, has a writing style that seems dated and can inspire more arduousness than avidness.

    Alice in Wonderland 2009

  • Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • He eyed it without favor, but with a sort of fierce avidness almost obsessional.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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