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Eagerness
//ˈiɡɚnəs// noun
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Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. uncountable, usually
"The things he had to tell about...were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement, when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working."
- 2 prompt willingness wordnet
- 3 Tartness, sourness. obsolete, uncountable, usually
"Senvie, which is of a most biting and stinging tast, of a fierie effect,[…]serveth also to make a pretie dish of meat to be eaten, being boiled or stewed between too^([sic – meaning two]) little dishes in some convenient liquor, in such sort, as a man shall not feele it to bite at the tongues end, nor complaine of any eagernesse that it hath."
- 4 a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager + -ness.
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