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Earnestness vs Excitement - What's the difference?

earnestness | excitement | Related terms |

Earnestness is a related term of excitement.


As nouns the difference between earnestness and excitement

is that earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness while excitement is (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

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.

    • excitement

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
  • * E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
    • By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
  • (countable) something that excites.