noun. Keen interest or enthusiasm.

noun. Strong desire or craving.

noun. undefined

noun. Greediness; strong appetite: applied to the senses.

noun. Eagerness; intenseness of desire: applied to the mind.

noun. Synonyms Earnestness, Zeal, etc. See eagerness.

noun. In physical chemistry, a constant by means of which can be expressed the distribution of a base between two acids each sufficient to neutralize the whole of the base, or conversely; that is, the relative energy with which the acids tend to seize their shares of base: a term employed to avoid the use of the word affinity.

noun. Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire.

noun. Greediness; strong appetite.

noun. Eagerness; intenseness of desire

noun. The measure of the synergism of the strength individual interactions between proteins.

noun. a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

"Christian -- in the adorable acceptation of that divine word -- nothing has less in common with the true, essential, and religiously social spirit of the gospel, than this insatiable ardor to acquire wealth by every possible means -- this dangerous avidity, which is far from being atoned for, in the eyes of public opinion, by a few paltry alms, bestowed in the narrow spirit of exclusion and intolerance."

enthusiasm  

ardor  ardour  zeal  élan  

affluence  alacrity  ardor  assiduity  avarice  

acquisitiveness  alacrity  alacrity  animation  anxiety