different between acidity vs avidity

English

Etymology

From French acidité, from Latin acidit?tem, accusative singular of acidit?s (“sourness, acidity”), from acidus (“sour, acid”). See acid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??s?d?ti/

Noun

acidity (countable and uncountable, plural acidities)

1. The quality or state of being acid.
2. Sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste.

3. (pathology) Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.
4. (figuratively) A caustic, sour, biting, or bitter quality.

Antonyms

• alkalinity

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Anagrams

• adicity

English

Etymology

From Middle English avidite, from Old French avidite (modern French avidité), from Latin avidit?s (“avidity, covetousness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?d?ti/

Noun

avidity (usually uncountable, plural avidities)

1. Greediness; strong appetite.
2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

3. (biochemistry) The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.

Synonyms

• (intenseness of desire): eagerness, alacrity, enthusiasm, liveliness

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