English noun: seriousness |
1. | seriousness (feeling) an earnest and sincere feeling |
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| Synonyms | earnestness, sincerity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | gravity, solemnity |
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2. | seriousness (attribute) the quality of arousing fear or distress |
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| Samples | He learned the seriousness of his illness.
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| Synonyms | distressfulness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | badness, severeness, severity |
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3. | seriousness (attribute) the trait of being serious |
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| Samples | A lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness.
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| Synonyms | earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | trait |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | commitment, committedness, graveness, gravity, sedateness, soberness, sobriety, solemness, solemnity, somberness, sombreness, staidness |
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| Attribute | frivolous, serious |
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| Antonyms | frivolity, frivolousness |
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