eagerness
23
2.5
- noun
- /ˈiːɡərnəs/
:
deseo
- The children showed their eagerness to learn by asking many questions during the lesson.
- eagerness to please
- eagerness to participate
- eagerness to help
Another one is eagerness to invent.
- Another one is eagerness to invent.
- Then actually, their eagerness to come and help was itself nothing else but a desire to see and exhibit their own action, not the matter in hand itself.
- But I sense a very, very strong eagerness for people to just have some.
- It's that ability and eagerness to identify gaps in logic or a shortfalls in evidence based argumentation.
Examples
-
The soldiers cheered again, this time with a baying eagerness in their voices.
Fiction book (1992) -
Hadley woke up early Saturday morning, filled with eagerness to return to Hogback Hill.
Fiction book (1993) -
But I sense a very, very strong eagerness for people to just have some.
-
Fear left her, replaced by an eagerness to share what she knew with these people she loved.
Fiction book (1992) -
But he was quite ready now; he was even feeling an eagerness to leave.
Fiction book (1990) -
You know, Richard, I understand your eagerness.
-
I'm depending upon his eagerness to question me.
-
Change can only come if there is a willingness, an eagerness, to reform theatre programs.
Academic text (2000) -
On his way up to bed, he remembered Dick Felton and his eagerness to help in the investigation.
Fiction book (1993) -
And I could see everybody glancing at me, understanding my eagerness, and sympathizing with me.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
∞
1.6
A strong wish to have or experience something
434
1.0
A strong feeling of happiness and eagerness, or something that causes it
348
2.7
A reason or desire that makes someone want to do something
318
2.2
A strong wish to learn or know things
288
2.2
A strong feeling of excitement and interest in something
194
2.8
Readiness to do something without complaining
65
2.7
Willing and prepared to do something
36
5.8
A strong feeling of energy and interest in helping a cause
27
6.7
A feeling of strong, happy energy and excitement
7
7.5
A strong feeling of love and excitement for someone or something
4
8.4
A quick and eager willingness to do something
1
5.6
A strong, eager interest in a cause or idea
1
5.1
A strong desire to learn new things
1
3.6
A strong wish to do something
1
8.0
A very strong wish to have or do something
A very strong and eager interest in something
A lively, happy energy that makes a person enjoy life
Antonyms
How Eager
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eagerness is made of eager + -ness, and eager once meant 'sharp' or 'keen', like a sharp want or hunger for something. So eagerness is that strong, excited willingness to do or have something.