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Meaning of aviditas | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
[aˈwɪ.dɪ.taːs]

Definitions

An eagerness for something, avidity, longing, desire; covetousness, greed, avarice; gluttony, hunger

declension-3

Equivalents

العربية نَفَاد صَبْر
Беларуская нецярплі́васць
Català impaciència
Čeština netrpělivost
Deutsch Ungeduld
Ελληνικά ανυπομονησία
English Impatience
Esperanto malpacienco
Español impaciencia
Français impatience
Íslenska óþolinmæði
Italiano impazienza
日本語 焦り 焦燥
ქართული მოუთმენლობა
Latina impatientia
Lëtzebuergesch Ongedold
Nederlands ongeduld
Português impaciência
Русский нетерпе́ние
Svenska otålighet
Tagalog inip
Українська нетерпі́ння

Examples

“[…] habeōque senectūtī magnam grātiam, quae mihi sermōnis aviditātem auxit, pōtiōnis et cibī sustulit.”

And I have such gratitude for old age, for it has increased my eagerness for conversation, while taking away [my hunger] for food and drink.

“Est ille plūs quam capit, et ingentī aviditāte onerat distentum ventrem ac dēsuētum iam ventris officiō, ut maiōre opera omnia ēgerat quam ingessit.”

He is [eating] more than he can hold, and with insatiable gluttony he overstuffs his distended gut — in fact already beyond the regular business of a belly — so that he will be expelling it all with more effort than [when] he packed it in.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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