Definition of "engagedness" []

• The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal. (noun)

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• "Such an apt portrayal of the engagedness of our "intelligensia" with the real world they have escaped but at the same time destroy."
• "But they somehow managed to look separate from the scene, as though the worry and weariness and day-to-day engagedness of the subway ride touched upon them not at all; and yet the way they were openly looking at the rest of us was avid, proprietary, amused, almost too knowing ..."
• "As my bodily strength returned, my engagedness of soul returned; also, my impressions to call upon my fellow-creatures to turn to God."