different between impetuosity vs avidity

English

Etymology

From Middle French impétuosité, from Old French

Noun

impetuosity (usually uncountable, plural impetuosities)

1. The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.
2. The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.
3. Vehemence; furiousness of temper.

Synonyms

• impetuousness

Related terms

• impetuous
• impetuously
• impetuousness

Translations

References

• impetuosity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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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