avid

Etymology

From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

adj

1. enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
   I'm an avid reader.
   an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
   A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root. 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
   We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us. 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, page 3