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Outrage vs Eagerness - What's the difference?

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Outrage is a related term of eagerness.


As a noun eagerness is

the state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

outrage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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  • An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
  • The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
  • (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
  • "by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).

    Verb

    (outrag)
  • To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
  • * Atterbury
  • Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
  • * Broome
  • This interview outrages all decency.
  • (archaic) To violate; to rape (a female).
  • (obsolete) To rage in excess of.
  • (Young)

    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)