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Webster 1828 Edition


Overeagerness

OVERE'AGERNESS

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Noun.
Excess of earnestness.

Definition 2024


overeagerness

overeagerness

English

Noun

overeagerness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
    • 2008 May 25, “Circumstantial Evidence”, in New York Times:
      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.”