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fervid (en)

(adjective) very hot; burning / (adjective) marked by often extreme fervor

Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace


Fervid is the next level up; it connotes even more passion/devotion/eagerness than fervent. At the top is perfervid, which means extravagantly, rabidly, uncontrollably zealous or impassioned.

—p.274 Twenty-Four Word Notes (261) by David Foster Wallace
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