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earnestness

English

Etymology

earnest +? -ness

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /??n?stn?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???n?stn?s/
  • Hyphenation: ear?nest?ness

Noun

earnestness (countable and uncountable, plural earnestnesses)

  1. The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
      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.

Translations

Anagrams

  • easternness

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eagerness

English

Alternative forms

  • eagreness (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager +? -ness.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?i??n?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?i???n?s/
  • Hyphenation: ea?ger?ness

Noun

eagerness (usually uncountable, plural eagernesses)

  1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
    • 1909: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
      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.
  2. (obsolete) Tartness; sourness

Translations

Anagrams

  • Gerasenes, eagreness, green seas, sea greens

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