Seriousness

Quick meaning: Seriousness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being serious.

Meaning

The state or quality of being serious.

Example Sentences

“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”

Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

Word Forms

• seriousnesses

Synonyms for seriousness

Depending on context, synonyms include earnestness, seriosity, sincerity, distressfulness, serious-mindedness.

Antonyms for seriousness

Common opposites include jocularity, levity, unseriousness, frivolity, frivolousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include earnestness, sincerity, distressfulness, serious-mindedness, earnest, seriously.

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