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