Eagerness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eagerness \Ea"ger*ness\, n.
     1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The
        eagerness of love." --Addison.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Tartness; sourness. [Obs.]


  
     Syn: Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness;
          fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion;
          greediness.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eagerness
       n : a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
           [syn: {avidity}, {avidness}, {keenness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  165 Moby Thesaurus words for "eagerness":
     OK, a thing for, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affinity,
     affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeability,
     agreeableness, agreement, alacrity, ambition, amenability,
     animation, anxiety, appetite, approbation, approval, aptitude,
     aptness, ardor, assent, avidity, aye, bent, bias, blessing,
     breathless impatience, cast, chafing, cheerful consent, compliance,
     conatus, concupiscence, conduciveness, connivance, consent,
     cooperativeness, curiosity, dash, delight, desideration, desire,
     diathesis, disposition, disquietude, docility, drive, earnestness,
     elan, endorsement, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, fancy, fantasy,
     favorable disposition, favorableness, feeling for, fervor,
     forwardness, fretfulness, fretting, gameness, get-up-and-go, go,
     goodwill, gusto, haste, hope, horme, hunger, impatience,
     impatientness, impetuousness, inclination, intellectual curiosity,
     keenness, lather, leaning, liability, libido, liking, longing,
     lust for learning, mind, mustard, need, okay, passion, penchant,
     permission, pleasure, pleasure principle, pliability, pliancy,
     predilection, predisposition, prejudice, probability, proclivity,
     promptitude, promptness, proneness, propensity, quickness,
     ratification, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness,
     receptivity, relish, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness,
     right mood, sanction, sensitivity to, sexual desire, soft spot,
     spirit, spiritedness, stew, submission, susceptibility, sweat,
     tendency, tense readiness, thirst for knowledge, tractability,
     tropism, turn, twist, uneasiness, ungrudgingness, unloathness,
     unpatientness, unquietness, unreluctance, urge, vehemence, verve,
     vigor, vim, vitality, want, wanting, warp, weakness, will,
     will and pleasure, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, wish,
     wish fulfillment, wishing, yearning, zeal, zealousness, zest, zing,
     zip