Avidity
WordNet
noun
(1) A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Greediness; strong appetite.
- Eagerness; intenseness of desire
- to eat with avidity
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience:
- Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity,
Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
- Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity,
- The measure of the synergism of the strength individual interactions between proteins.