eagerness

Other forms of eagerness

plural

eagernesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eagerness

What does eagerness mean?

eagerness means "a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eagerness?

eagerness has 3 syllables: ea-ger-ness. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈiɡɚnəs/.

What is another word for eagerness?

Close synonyms include avidity, avidness, keenness, readiness, zeal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eagerness a common word?

eagerness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.