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.
âCreativity is a unique talent that cannot be so easily taught out of a textbookâ. Discredited by the academic brain of the intellectual, the skill of creativity seems to have lost its importance and worth in the hierarchy of ability that society has created. âClevernessâ and oneâs ability to memorise textbook facts and figures seems to have become a respected skill, one that directly correlates to importance and intellect.