enthusiasm

Definition

Examples

The new employee showed great enthusiasm for learning about our products.

Word Family

Synonyms

• passiona strong feeling or emotion
• eagernessa positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
• zeala feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)

Collocations

• Easy show enthusiasm
  to display, demonstrate, or exhibit regarding enthusiasm
• Medium lack of enthusiasm
  to lack of enthusiasm, meaning to be without
• Hard dampen initial enthusiasm
  to dampen initial enthusiasm, meaning to smother or suppress
• Very Hard greet proposal with infectious enthusiasm
  to greet proposal with infectious enthusiasm, meaning to express greetings upon meeting someone