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Keen vs Overkeen - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between keen and overkeen

is that keen is showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense while overkeen is overly keen.

As a verb keen

is to sharpen; to make cold.

As a noun keen

is a prolonged wail for a deceased person.

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