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Noun: seriousness  sireeusnus
  1. An earnest and sincere feeling
    - earnestness, sincerity
     
  2. The quality of arousing fear or distress
    "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
    - distressfulness
     
  3. The trait of being serious
    "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"
    - earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity

Derived forms: seriousnesses

See also: frivolous, serious

Type of: badness, gravity, severeness, severity, solemnity, trait

Antonym: frivolity

Encyclopedia: Seriousness