DESIROUSNESS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

desirousness

noun

as in enthusiasm

urgent desire or interest her desirousness for advancement in the corporation is such that she works harder and longer than anyone else

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Noun

Spending has been helped by a strong stock market, which reflects enthusiasm over the prospects for artificial intelligence and which enriches wealthy investors and gives them more money to buy things with.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
That level of enthusiasm underscores the power of personal agents and the promise that consumers and office workers will be able to use the technology to book travel, pay bills, respond to emails and perform many more tasks.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of enthusiasm

Noun

Naturally, many of those discussions gravitated toward data centers and AI’s thirst for electrons.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Advanced signs include anxiety, confusion, agitation, hallucinations, extreme thirst paired with panic at the sight of fluids, heavy saliva and aggressive thrashing or biting.

— The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of thirst

Noun

Despite not having a proper commercial rollout ready at the time, the on-court debut generated a great deal of excitement.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
But the night felt overly reliant on the audience’s excitement about the Knicks’ champions being in the building.

— Rima Parikh, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of excitement

Noun

But with public debt rising and budgets already under strain, governments have little appetite for adding another enormous bill to the public ledger.

— Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
The government, unable and unwilling to check their most voracious citizens and appetites, failed to tame the frontier.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of appetite

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