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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Ivan Turgenev

Meaning of "avidity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AVIDITY

avidity  [əˈvɪdɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AVIDITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Avidity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AVIDITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Avidity

In the context of biochemistry, avidity refers to the accumulated strength of multiple affinities of individual non-covalent binding interactions, such as between a protein receptor and its ligand, and is commonly referred to as functional affinity. As such, avidity is distinct from affinity, which describes the strength of a single interaction. However, because individual binding events increase the likelihood of other interactions to occur, avidity should not be thought of as the mere sum of its constituent affinities but as the combined effect of all affinities participating in the biomolecular interaction. Biomolecules often form heterogenous complexes or homogenous oligomers and multimers or polymers. If clustered proteins form an organized matrix, such as the clathrin-coat, the interaction is a described as matricity.

Definition of avidity in the English dictionary

The first definition of avidity in the dictionary is the quality or state of being avid. Other definition of avidity is eagerness. Avidity is also greed; avarice.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AVIDITY


acidity
əˈsɪdɪtɪ
aridity
əˈrɪdɪtɪ
comorbidity
ˌkəʊmɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
cupidity
kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
fervidity
fɜːˈvɪdɪtɪ
fluidity
fluːˈɪdɪtɪ
gravidity
ɡræˈvɪdɪtɪ
humidity
hjuːˈmɪdɪtɪ
hybridity
haɪˈbrɪdɪtɪ
intrepidity
ˌɪntrɪˈpɪdɪtɪ
invalidity
ˌɪnvəˈlɪdɪtɪ
liquidity
lɪˈkwɪdɪtɪ
lividity
lɪˈvɪdɪtɪ
morbidity
mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
perfervidity
ˌpɜːfəˈvɪdɪtɪ
rapidity
rəˈpɪdɪtɪ
rigidity
rɪˈdʒɪdɪtɪ
stupidity
stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
turbidity
tɜːˈbɪdɪtɪ
vividity
vɪˈvɪdɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AVIDITY

aviatress
aviatrice
aviatrix
Avicenna
avicular
aviculture
aviculturist
avid
Avid fart
avidin
avidly
avidness
Aviemore
aviette
avifauna
avifaunal
aviform
Avignon
avine
avion

WORDS THAT END LIKE AVIDITY

absolute humidity
face validity
flaccidity
frigidity
hyperacidity
insipidity
modulus of rigidity
nudity
placidity
putridity
rancidity
relative humidity
solidity
specific humidity
superfluidity
timidity
torpidity
torridity
turgidity
validity
viscidity

Synonyms and antonyms of avidity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AVIDITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «avidity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of avidity

Translation of «avidity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AVIDITY

Find out the translation of avidity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of avidity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «avidity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

亲和力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

avidez
570 millions of speakers

English

avidity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उत्सुकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطمع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

алчность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

avidez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লোভপরায়ণতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avidité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesakitan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

親和性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

갈망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Avidity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự khao khát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேரவா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मत्सर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

istek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avidità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zachłanność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жадібність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aviditate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απληστία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

begeerte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aviditet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avidity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of avidity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AVIDITY»

The term «avidity» is regularly used and occupies the 103.281 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AVIDITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about avidity

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2 QUOTES WITH «AVIDITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word avidity.
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Emil Theodor Kocher
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.
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Ivan Turgenev
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AVIDITY»

Discover the use of avidity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to avidity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kuby Immunology
Antibody avidity incorporates affinity of multiple binding sites The affinity at one binding site does not always reflect the true strength of the antibody-antigen interaction. When complex antigens containing multiple, repeating antigenic ...
Thomas J. Kindt, Richard A. Goldsby, Barbara A. Osborne, 2007
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Toxoplasma Gondii: The Model Apicomplexan - Perspectives and ...
20% at the time of diagnosis, but most patients had developed an IgG avidity index above 15% after 180 days (Lappalainen et al., 1993). A study from France found an average IgG avidity index of 0.2 in pregnant women infected within five  ...
Louis M. Weiss, Kami Kim, 2013
3
Regulating the High Avidity, Tumor-reactive CD8+ T Cell ...
The potential of treating cancer using a patient's own immune system has intrigued scientists for decades.
Brian H. Ladle, 2007
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Mental Avidity: Or, the Rumination of a Day. A Poem: In Four ...
MENTAL AVIDITY: OR. THE RUMINATION OF A DAY. THIRD BOOK. ARGUMENT1. The tii'o Lovers being ft/ppofed to have had another Interview ; after which , a Friend was fent to acquaint AMANDA'S Father, and endeavour to obtain his ...
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Rubella Viruses
to give a rubella IgG concentration of 70IU/ml, because the rise of the avidity index may be detected earlier and at incorrectly high values if there is a high specific IgG concentration (G. Enders, unpublished results). The kinetics of avidity  ...
Jangu Banatvala, Catherine Peckham, 2006
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Essentials of Immunology and Serology
Some of the TCRs will bind the self peptide-MHC complex with high avidity, while other TCRs will bind self peptide-MHC complexes with negligible avidity. Yet, other TCRs will bind the complexes with an avidity that is between these two ...
Jacqueline Stanley, 2002
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The Immunoassay Handbook
Because of this, it is very difficult to differentiate between recent (acute) and remote infection utilizing currently available IgM immunoassays. It has been reported several years ago (Inouye et al., 1984) that the avidity of specific IgG antibody is ...
David Wild, 2005
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Autoantibodies
47 Clinical utility of avidity in autoimmune disorders In homeostatic regulation of immune response through an idiotype-anti-idiotype network both affinity and concentration of autoantibodies are essential. The product of affinity constant and  ...
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Pier Luigi Meroni, M. Eric Gershwin, 2013
9
Gene Vaccines
capable of enhancing the avidity of T cell immunity (Ranasinghe and Ramshaw 2009a) (Ranasinghe, manuscript in preparation). Furthermore, we have also found that to generate high avidity CTL the molecular adjuvant should preferentially ...
Josef Thalhamer, Richard Weiss, Sandra Scheiblhofer, 2011
10
Traveler's Vaccines
Measurement of High-Avidity Antibodies On a weight-for-weight basis, higher avidity antibodies are more effective than lower avidity ones. Protection against disease depends on both antibody concentration and avidity. The measurement of ...
Jane N. Zuckerman, Elaine C. Jong, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AVIDITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term avidity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Duty-free booze: How to use up dodgy holiday spirits like ouzo …
Though consumed with avidity in Burnley, where a typical working men's club gets through 1,000 bottles a year (a habit acquired during the ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
'A corrupt society stinks. Got it!'
... whose avidity leaves the poor without the essential things to which they have a right. He gave three concrete examples: hospitals go without ... «Times of Malta, Jul 15»
3
Susavion Biosciences Discovers A Novel Type of Checkpoint Inhibitor
In the report published in the online journal PLOS ONE (A Peptide Mimetic of 5-Acetylneuraminic Acid-Galactose Binds with High Avidity to ... «PipelineReview.com, Jun 15»
4
Up Next with Rich Luker
... been able to accurately predict amounts of sports fan behavior across a broad range of activities using measures of avidity, or fan “bigness. «SportsBusiness Daily, Jun 15»
5
'San Andreas' & 'Love and Mercy'
Here I should confess my lifelong avidity for disaster movies. From Towering Inferno in 1973 to Contagion a few years ago, I have spent ... «Commonweal, Jun 15»
6
'Maryam Rajavi, Iran's President-in-exile': Al-Jazeera
She described the Arab coalition action in Yemen “as a signal of firmness and a solution vis-à-vis the Iranian regime's avidity, and she called for ... «NCR-Iran.org, Jun 15»
7
The Story of Denmark Vesey
The intense avidity which at first grasped at every incident of the great insurrectionary plot was succeeded by a distaste for the memory of the tale; and the official ... «The Atlantic, Jun 15»
8
Protein Regulation of Gene Expression: Faster Better Than Stronger
“This effect results from increased avidity together with strengthened nonspecific chromatin interactions of dimeric HP1a,” the scientists ... «Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Jun 15»
9
National Post View: Save real French cheese
As with every horrifying consumer purchase from fashion to the vice trade, the problem is not their ingenuity in peddling it but our avidity in ... «National Post, Jun 15»
10
Ramadhan Kareem - Month of Love, Fear for Almighty God
Abandoning food, drink, and sex was only a prelude to the next stage of greater significance: of conquering avidity and cupidity, lust and ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»

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