seriousness

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noun

1. an earnest and sincere feeling (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
earnestness, sincerity
• Derivationally related forms:
sincere (for: sincerity), earnest (for: earnestness)
• Hypernyms:
gravity, solemnity
2. the quality of arousing fear or distress (Freq. 1)
- he learned the seriousness of his illness
• Syn:
distressfulness
• Derivationally related forms:
distressful (for: distressfulness), serious
• Hypernyms:
badness, severity, severeness
3. the trait of being serious
- "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice
• Syn:
earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity
• Ant:
frivolity
• Derivationally related forms:
sincere (for: sincerity), serious-minded (for: serious-mindedness), earnest (for: earnestness), serious
• Hypernyms:
trait
• Hyponyms:
committedness, commitment, graveness, gravity, sobriety,
sobriety, somberness, sombreness, sedateness, staidness,
solemnity, solemness
• Attrubites:
serious, frivolous

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity, distressfulness
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  frivolity, frivolousness