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earnestness
English
Etymology
earnest +? -ness
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n?stn?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???n?stn?s/
- Hyphenation: ear?nest?ness
Noun
earnestness (countable and uncountable, plural earnestnesses)
- The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
Translations
Anagrams
- easternness
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avidity
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)
- Greediness; strong appetite.
- 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.
- (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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