Eagerness vs Interested - What's the difference?
eagerness | interested |
The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
* 1909:
(obsolete) Tartness; sourness
(Webster 1913)
Having or showing interest.
Motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
Owning a share of a company.
(interest)
As a noun eagerness
is the state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.As an adjective interested is
having or showing interest.As a verb interested is
(interest).eagerness
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Alternative forms
* eagreness (obsolete)Noun
(-)- 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.
interested
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm very interested in going to see that play.
- they impressed my youthful mind with a sincere aversion to the northern inhabitants of Britain, as a people bloodthirsty in time of war, treacherous during truce, interested , selfish, avaricious, and tricky in the business of peaceful life, and having few good qualities [...].