Eagerness and Need

Eagerness

Eagerness noun - Urgent desire or interest.

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Need and eagerness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Eagerness".

Nearby Words: eager, eagerly

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Eagerness and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Eagerness" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

good	good eagerness	good need
long	long eagerness	long need
particular	particular eagerness	particular need
natural	natural eagerness	natural need
Other adjectives: genuine, strong, great, intense, huge, urgent, frequent, general, apparent.

It doesn't need to be a literal 'death', either - he's talked an all too eager sniper into dropping his gun (and out of his eagerness), and kept an Arthurian villain from initiating a nuclear weapon with nothing but words.

Source: Talking the Monster to Death
Geraden from Stephen Donaldson's Mordant's Need is a male example; one incident among many is falling into a pigswallow in his eagerness to meet the king, and so appearing before his monarch dripping dirty water and rotten vegetables.

Source: Cute Clumsy Girl

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