keenness
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
keen1
▶adjective
- 1 chiefly Brit. eager; enthusiastic.
■ (keen on) interested in or attracted by.
- 2 (of the edge or point of a blade) sharp.
■ (of a sense or mental faculty) acute or quick.
■ (of the air or wind) cold and biting.
- 3 (of activity or feeling) intense.
- 4 Brit. (of prices) very low; competitive.
– derivatives
keenly adverb,
keenness noun.
keenly adverb,
keenness noun.
– origin OE cēne ‘wise, brave’, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
keen2
▶verb wail in grief for a dead person.
■ make an eerie wailing sound.
▶noun an Irish funeral song accompanied with wailing in lamentation for the dead.– derivatives
keener noun.
keener noun.
– origin C19: from Ir. caoinim ‘I wail’.
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