Definition of "avidness" []

• The characteristic of being avid. (noun)

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• "The Wall Street Journal's critic hailed his "sheer pictorial elegance," while criticizing the paintings as "grotesqueries with an avidness worthy of Barnum.""
• "Even Charles Dickens, God love him, has a writing style that seems dated and can inspire more arduousness than avidness."
• "Flinging aside the crumpled corpse, already forgetful of it, Thoth grasped the ring in both hands, his dark eyes blazing with a fearful avidness."