In the English Vocabulary Profile, the adjective ‘eager’ and the uncountable noun ‘eagerness’ are listed at B2 with the meanings:
- wanting to do or have something very much
- when you are eager to do something
They are often followed by TO-infinitive.
For example,
And his eagerness to leave his mother‘s womb was the very reason he was the one who was selected.
Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment.
A search for eagerness * * in iWeb:
1 EAGERNESS TO LEARN 898
2 EAGERNESS TO GET 345
3 EAGERNESS TO PLEASE 300
4 EAGERNESS OF THE 217
5 EAGERNESS TO BE 214
6 EAGERNESS TO HELP 182
7 EAGERNESS WITH WHICH 156
8 EAGERNESS TO MAKE 137
9 EAGERNESS . 134
10 EAGERNESS TO SEE 128
11 EAGERNESS TO WORK 128
12 EAGERNESS , AND 125
13 EAGERNESS TO SHARE 115
14 EAGERNESS FOR THE 102
15 EAGERNESS TO EXPLORE 94
16 EAGERNESS TO TAKE 90
17 EAGERNESS TO DO 87
18 EAGERNESS TO FIND 74
19 EAGERNESS TO HAVE 62
20 EAGERNESS TO SERVE 58
‘eager’ is far more common than ‘eagerness’
1 EAGER TO GET 8172
2 EAGER TO LEARN 7398
3 EAGER TO SEE 7012
4 EAGER TO HELP 4621
5 EAGER TO SHARE 3277
6 EAGER TO PLEASE 3102
7 EAGER TO TRY 2699
8 EAGER TO MAKE 2638
9 EAGER TO HEAR 2543
10 EAGER TO TAKE 2314
11 EAGER TO FIND 2202
12 EAGER TO BE 2059
13 EAGER TO WORK 1882
14 EAGER TO DO 1734
15 EAGER TO HAVE 1597
16 EAGER FOR THE 1568
17 EAGER TO START 1369
18 EAGER TO SHOW 1360
19 EAGER TO KNOW 1272
20 EAGER FOR A 1116