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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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It appears to be inevitable that abuses will have occurred, given the avidity with which behavior modification has been sought after.
Molecular biologists enter the story, but mainly those with an avidity for technology and an appetite for large scale.
But Griett is sent to clean the artist's studio, and he notices her curiosity and the avidity with which she studies his work.
With a tractable reading list in front of me my impatience with reading turned quickly into avidity.
She's been empty inside, with nothing but a heart burning with anger and avidity.
It is certainly true that there is not the enthusiasm, the appetite, the avidity for film that there was when I first began writing about it.

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