eagerness
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eagerness
- /ˈiɡɚnəs/ US
- /ˈiːɡənəs/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager + -ness.
noun eagernesses · eagreness
- The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. 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.
- Tartness, sourness. 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, n
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Talk about this word "eagerness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/eagerness. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. eagerness. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/eagerness "eagerness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/eagerness.Cite this
@misc{eagerness_2026,
title = {eagerness},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/eagerness},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
