avidity vs yearning

avidity

noun
  • Eagerness; intenseness of desire. 

  • Greediness; strong appetite. 

  • The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins. 

yearning

noun
  • A wistful or melancholy longing. 

How often have the words avidity and yearning occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )