avidity

Questions about avidity

What does avidity mean?

avidity means "a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something".

How many syllables are in avidity?

avidity has 4 syllables: a-vi-di-ty. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for avidity?

Close synonyms include eagerness, avidness, keenness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avidity a common word?

avidity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.