Avidness

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  • noun. The characteristic of being avid.
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  • noun. a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
  • Word Usage
    "The Wall Street Journal's critic hailed his "sheer pictorial elegance," while criticizing the paintings as "grotesqueries with an avidness worthy of Barnum.""
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    ardor  ardour  zeal  élan