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What does avidity mean?

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Noun
  1. Greediness; strong appetite.
  2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
  3. (biochemistry) The measure of the synergism of the strength individual interactions between proteins.
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Since this is not a project I've followed with any avidity I was not aware that the fertilizing occurred yesterday.
But such an avidity is certainly directed away from the self, to the concerns, foibles, ensnarements, and adventures presented from the outside.
But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work.
Partisans on both sides study the fluctuating daily polls with the avidity of baseball fans following the electrifying playoffs.
Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals.
The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.

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