Marked by imprecision and vacillation; inconstant; uncertain: The wishy-washy player keeps putting off the evil day/ It's not overpowering like Opium and not wishy-washy [1873+; fr a rhythmic reduplication of washy, ''weak, diluted, watered-down,'' probably influenced by wishy as suggesting vacillating desires; the original sense was ''weak, insubstantial, trashy,'' found by 1703]
Medical Definition of avidity. : a characteristic of antibodies (such as antitoxins) that tends to enhance their rate or stability in binding with an antigen Antibody avidity is an average measure of the affinity of the antibodies for a particular antigen in a serum sample.âDominic F. Kelly, The New England Journal of Medicine, 21 Dec. 2005.
AVID is designed to teach students the skills they need to achieve academic and personal excellence. Students will learn methods for organizing their time and work. They will â¦ learn to use the Inquiry Method to think deeply about their work, learn to work successfully in collaborative teams, and enhance their writing, reading, and research skills in order to strive for excellence in all that they do.