ZEALOUSNESS Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

zealousness

noun

Definition of zealousness

as in zeal

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Recent Examples of zealousness The Iranians are banking on American impatience stoked by partisan zealousness. — Gil Troy, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026

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Noun

The source of Stevie’s anger lay in the drug’s having sapped her ability to live and work with the zeal and ambition that had defined her life and career up until then.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
The Leipzig scenes are both ephemeral and integral; later, Taro will speculate that if the Germans had had the same revolutionary zeal as the Spanish, Hitler might have been defeated.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of zeal

Noun

The H-bomb was popular with the American public at moments of peak anti-Soviet fervor, just as 70 percent of South Koreans, facing a nuclear regime to the north, want the bomb today.

— Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
Sachs’ faux boutique coincides with the $20 billion Chanel’s accelerating growth and shoppers’ fervor for fashion artistic director Matthieu Blazy’s designs.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Rubin nods along to those moments — which could have been trimmed and transformed JAŸ-Z in 8 into JAŸ-Z in 6 or maybe JAŸ-Z in 4 — with the same enthusiasm as when Carter actually breaks something down perceptively.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
But Husted may not need to generate much enthusiasm of his own.

— Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

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