avidez

Portuguese

Etymology

From ávido +‎ -ez.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.viˈde(j)s/ [a.viˈde(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.viˈde(j)s/ [a.viˈde(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.viˈde(j)ʃ/ [a.viˈde(ɪ̯)ʃ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.viˈdeʃ/ [ɐ.viˈðeʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.viˈdeʃ/ [ɐ.viˈðeʃ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.biˈdeʃ/ [ɐ.βiˈðeʃ]

• Rhymes: -eʃ
• Hyphenation: a‧vi‧dez

Noun

avidez f (uncountable)

1. eagerness

   Synonym: ânsia

   • 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     Não obstante, as casinhas do cortiço, à proporção que se atamancavam, enchiam-se logo, sem mesmo dar tempo a que as tintas secassem. Havia grande avidez em alugá-las; aquele era o melhor ponto do bairro para a gente do trabalho. Os empregados da pedreira preferiam todos morar lá, porque ficavam a dois passos da obrigação.

     Nonetheless, the slum's little houses, as soon as they got finished, they rapidly got filled, leaving no time for even the paint to dry. There was some eagerness in renting them; that was the best place in the neighborhood for the workperson. All the quarrymen preferred to live there, as it was two feet away from their workplace.

Further reading

• “avidez”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “avidez”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “avidez” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “avidez”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “avidez”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “avidez”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From ávido +‎ -ez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /abiˈdeθ/ [a.β̞iˈð̞eθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /abiˈdes/ [a.β̞iˈð̞es]
• Rhymes: -eθ
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: a‧vi‧dez

Noun

avidez f (plural avideces)

1. greed, avarice

   Synonyms: avaricia, codicia

2. eagerness

   Synonyms: ardor, ansia

Further reading

• “avidez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10