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Earnestness vs Eagerness - What's the difference?

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Earnestness is a related term of eagerness.


As nouns the difference between earnestness and eagerness

is that earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness while eagerness is the state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

earnestness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

    • eagerness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * eagreness (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
  • * 1909:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) Tartness; sourness
    • (Webster 1913)