different between ardor vs avidity

English

Alternative forms

• ardour (chiefly British and Canadian)

Etymology

From Middle English ardour, ardowr, ardure, from Anglo-Norman ardour, from Latin ardor, from ardere (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/, /???(?)d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

ardor (countable and uncountable, plural ardors) (American spelling)

1. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
2. Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
3. Intense heat.

Synonyms

• (warmth of feeling): intensity
• (spirit): elan, fire in the belly, passion, zeal

Antonyms

• apathy

Related terms

Translations

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin ardor.

Noun

ardor m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????)

1. ardor, passion

Latin

Etymology

From ?rde? +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.dor/, [?ärd??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.dor/, [??rd??r]

Noun

ardor m (genitive ard?ris); third declension

1. flame, fire, heat
2. brightness, brilliancy (of the eyes)
3. ardour, love

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• ardor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ardor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ardor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin ?rdor, ?rd?rem.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.?ðo?/
• Hyphenation: ar?dor
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. burning sensation

   Synonym: queimação

2. ardour (warmth of feeling)
3. spirit; enthusiasm

   Synonym: entusiasmo

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ardor.

Related terms

• ardência
• ardentemente
• arder
• ardido

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin ardor, ard?rem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

ardor m (plural ardores)

1. heat
2. ardour, fervor, passion
3. burning (feeling)

4. eagerness

Derived terms

• ardoroso

Related terms

• arder
• ardiente

Further reading

• “ardor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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

Translations