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Definition: Eagerness |
EagernessNoun1. A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eagerness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EagernessSynonyms: avidity (n), avidness (n), keenness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement, earnestness, intentness; abandon; vigor; (physical energy); devotion; (resolution); exertion. |
Desire | Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,. |
Feeling | Warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart; (disposition); passion; (state of excitability); ecstasy; (pleasure). |
Willingness | Geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness; eagerness; (desire). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eagerness |
| English words defined with "eagerness": alacrity, Ardency, ardor, ardour ♦ bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, briskness ♦ covetousness ♦ Desirefulness ♦ eagerly, elan ♦ hot ♦ impatient ♦ Newfangly ♦ raring ♦ sanguinary, Sight-seeing ♦ thirstily, To do violence to ♦ zeal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eagerness": sycophant. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eagerness": Desirefulness ♦ Newfangly. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Desiderius Erasmus | Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. |
George Eliot | But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Then all his eagerness passed away and he felt his face quite cool. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Venezuela | The Chavez administration has, for the most part, stated that it will continue these policies and has emphasized its eagerness to attract foreign investors. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eagerness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eagerness" is used about 232 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 232 | 19,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "eagerness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ozem | N/A | Biblical | Their eagerness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expression using "eagerness": eagerness for conquest. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "eagerness": over-eagerness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eagerness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | begerigheid (alacrity, avidity, covetousness, greediness), begeerte (avidity, covetousness, desire, greediness, want, wish). (various references) | |
Albanian | etje (anxiety, avidity, cupidity, desire, drought, hankering, hunger, thirst, voracity), padurim (impatience), lakmi (avidity, covetousness, cupidity, envy, gluttony, greed, greediness). (various references) | |
Arabic | لهفة (hankering, longing, regret, yearning), حماسة (abandonment, ardor, ardour, ebullience, elan, enthusiasm, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, glow, heartiness, impetus, intense interest, keenness, mettle, rage, responsiveness, warmth, zeal), تلهف على, توق (desire, hunger, longing, yearning), شوق (interest, longing, yearning). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ревност (fervency, heartburning, jealousy, mettle, violence, zealotry), готовност (alacrity, avidity, forwardness, goodwill, preparedness, readiness, trim, willingness), нетърпение (hurry, impatience), желание (desire, fancy, notion, pleasure, stomach, will, willingness, wish), жажда (concupiscence, hunger, thirst, yearning, yen), алчност (avarice, avidity, cupidity, mammon, miserliness, rapacity), пламенност (ardour, fire, impetuosity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 渴望 (Desired, Desiring, Desirous, Wishful, Wistfulness). (various references) | |
Czech | elán (Ardor, ardour, bounce, buoyancy, drive, elan, enthusiasm, guts, high spirits, pep, spirit, verve, vim, vivacity, zest), horlivost (alacrity, assiduity, heat, painstaking, solicitude, zeal), dychtivost. (various references) | |
Dutch | graagte (alacrity, appetite, avidity, covetousness, greediness), begerigheid (alacrity, avidity, covetousness, greed, greediness), begeerte (alacrity, appetite, avidity, covetousness, craving, desire, greediness, want, wish). (various references) | |
Esperanto | avido (avidity, covetousness, greediness), avideco (avidity, covetousness, greediness). (various references) | |
Finnish | into (ardour, enthusiasm, fervour, keenness, zeal), innokkuus (ardour, enthusiasm, keenness, zeal), halukkuus (readiness, willingness), halu (bent, desire longing wish, inclination, lust, tendency). (various references) | |
French | avidité. (various references) | |
German | eifer (alacrity, Ardor, ardour, assiduousness, assiduousnesses, enthusiasm, fervour, heat, intentness, keenness, mettle, studiousness, zeal, zealotry, zealousness). (various references) | |
Greek | προθυμία (alacrity, forwardness, gameness, neighborliness, neighbourliness, promptitude, promptness, readiness, towardness, willingness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"יטות (ardour, enthusiasm, excitement, gusto, passion), חשק (delight, desire, gusto, longing, lust, penchant, relish, zeal, zest), "תל"בות (elan, enthusiasm, excitement, fervor, gusto, incandescence, inspiration, verve, zeal, zest), בעל ות (avidity, proprietorship). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágy (appetite, cupidity, desire, longing, stomach, thirst, wish), mohóság (avidity, covetousness, greed, greediness, zeal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keinginan (pretension, urge, wish). (various references) | |
Italian | impazienza (impatience), avidita\; ardore, avidit (avidity, greed, greediness, lust, piggishness, ravenousness, thirst). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 懸命 (earnestness, risking one's life). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のりき (interest), やっき (desperation), け"めい (earnestness, intelligence, prudence, risking one's life, subject, term, title, wisdom). (various references) | |
Korean | 열심. (various references) | |
Manx | jeeanid (ardour, assiduity, avidity, earnestness, enthusiasm, fervour, intenseness, proneness, vehemence, zeal), aggindys (earnestness, solicitation, willingness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | iver (zeal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eagernessay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | avidez (alacrity, avidity, covetousness, greed, greediness, thirst). (various references) | |
Romanian | zel (Ardor, ardour, devoutness, earnestness, fervour, forwardness, gumption, metal, mettle, readiness, solicitude, vim, warmth, zeal), râvnã (application, Ardor, ardour, diligence, fervour, metal, mettle, warmth, zeal), poftã puternicã (craving), nerãbdare (anxiety, hastiness, impatience, petulance), dorinţã vie, dârdorã (brunt, fervour, fright), aviditate (avidity, rapacity). (various references) | |
Russian | рвение (alacrity, ardour, fervency, fervour, zeal, zealousness), пыл (ardor, ardors, ardour, elan, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, glow, metal, mettle, spunk, verve). (various references) | |
Scottish | deatam (anxiety, solicitude), deòdhas, deòthas, déineas (keenness), déineachd (impetuosity), déine. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žudnja (avidity, craving, hanker, hankering, hunger, longing, lust, thirst, yen). (various references) | |
Spanish | deseo (avidity, covetousness, desideratum, desire, greediness, I wish, want, will, wish, yearning), ansia (anguish, anxiety, appetency, craving, longing, urge, worry, yearning). (various references) | |
Swedish | begär (appetite, avidity, covetousness, craving, desire, greediness, longing, lust, yen), iver (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, application, Ardor, ardour, avidity, excitement, fervency, fervor, fervour, forwardness, heat, urgency, willingness, zeal, zest). (various references) | |
Thai | ความกระตือรือร้น (earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, fire). (various references) | |
Turkish | sabırsızlık (headiness, impatience, restiveness), heves (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), can atma (alacrity, anxiety, aspiration, itch, longing, readiness), şevk (animation, ardour, desire, elan, enthusiasm, fervency, fervor, fervour, glow, mettle, spirit, spiritedness, verve). (various references) | |
Ukranian | старання (endeavor, endeavour), ретельність (application, assiduity, care, diligence, nicety, rigor, rigour, severity), запал (fervor, fervour, fuse, fusee, fuze, ignition, lighter, mettle, passion, primer, squib, zeal, zest). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính hám, sự thiết tha (greediness, keenness), sự say mê (addiction, enchantment, keenness, rage, self-absorption), sự ham, sự hâm hở, sự háo hức. (various references) | |
Welsh | awydd (appetite, avidity, desire). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alacritas, studia, studiis, studio, studiorum, studium. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | instance. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eagerness": eagernesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eagerness": meagerness, overeagerness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eagerness": meagernesses, overeagernesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eagerness" (pronounced ē"gernus) |
| 4 | -er n u s | bitterness, cavernous, cleverness, governess, otherness, tenderness, togetherness, wilderness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: ageneses. | |
-2 letters: enrages, geneses, greases, reneges, sangers, senegas, serenes. | |
-3 letters: agenes, agrees, angers, eagers, eagres, egress, enrage, erases, gasser, genera, genres, grease, greens, ragees, ranees, ranges, renege, reseen, resees, sanger, sarees, sarges, sarsen, senega, serene, serges, snares, sneers. | |
-4 letters: agene, agers, agree, anger, arses, eager, eagre, earns, eases, egers, erase, ernes, erses, gases, gears, geese, genes, genre, gnars, grans, grass, green, grees, nares, nears, ragee, rages, ranee, range, rases, reges, regna, resee, sager, sages, saner, sanes, saree, sarge, sears, seers, sensa, sense, seres, serge, snags, snare, sneer. | |
-5 letters: agee, ager, ages, anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, ease, eger, engs, eras, ergs, erne, erns, eses, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gear, gees, gene, gens, gnar, gran, gree, nags, near, ness, rage, rags, rang, rase, rees, regs, sage, sags, sane, sang, sans, sear, seas, seen, seer, sees, segs, sene, sera, sere, sers, snag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: meagerness. | |
+2 letters: averageness, eagernesses, generalises, gravenesses, greatnesses, largenesses, parageneses, sergeancies, sergeanties. | |
+3 letters: androgeneses, greasinesses, manageresses, meagernesses, raggednesses. | |
+4 letters: aggregateness, agreeableness, atherogeneses, atherogenesis, averagenesses, cheeseparings, disagreements, estrangements, gracelessness, gracilenesses, guardednesses, organogeneses, overeagerness, predesignates, sheepshearing, strangenesses, superagencies, teratogeneses, teratogenesis. | |
+5 letters: aggressiveness, beggarlinesses, bigheartedness, carcinogeneses, degenerateness, dehydrogenases, desegregations, gracefulnesses, gratefulnesses, magnetospheres, regardlessness, regenerateness, reinvestigates, resegregations, sheepshearings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 67 65 72 6E 65 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a g e r n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0067 0065 0072 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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