EAGERNESS Copy link • EAGERNESSEagerness after anything, cupiditas: cupido (☞ poetically and historically; not in Cic.): aviditas: appetentia: studium: desiderium: libido [ SYN. in DESIRE]. (The words are found in this connection and order.) studia cupiditatesque. Extreme eagerness, (cupiditatis) ardor, impetus; sitis: to fill anybody with eagerness, alicui cupiditatem dare or (stronger) injicere; aliquem in cupiditatem impellere; aliquem cupiditate incendere, inflammare: to restrain one’s eagerness after anything, cupiditatem coercere, tenere, comprimere, restinguere. More under DESIRE, Vid: Vehemence, vis: incitatio: impetus: violentia: ardor: aestus (the last two of passions). SYN. in VEHEMENCE.