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avidity

(n): a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
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about 1 year ago seanahan said:

You know, if I had to use this word, I would have said avidness, but this is a much better word.

about 1 year ago exquisite said:

"She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity."

David Rieff on his mother, Susan Sontag

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