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Overeager vs Overeagerness - What's the difference?

overeager | overeagerness |

As an adjective overeager

is excessively eager, anxious, or excited.

As a noun overeagerness is

the quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.

overeager

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Excessively eager, anxious, or excited.
    • He got a bad haircut from an overeager fellow who had just begun his career as a barber.

    overeagerness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 25, author=, title=Circumstantial Evidence, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In her review of Christopher Benfey’s “Summer of Hummingbirds” (May 4), Laura Miller characterizes Benfey as having “a conspiracy theorist’s overeagerness in spying out connections.” }}