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Zealousness vs Overzealousness - What's the difference?

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Zealousness is a related term of overzealousness.


As nouns the difference between zealousness and overzealousness

is that zealousness is the quality of being zealous; zeal while overzealousness is the quality of being too zealous.

zealousness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being zealous; zeal.

    • overzealousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being too zealous
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, The Gaza Boomerang, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression. }}

    Related terms

    *overzealously *zealousness