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sobriety
sobriety
noun
Definition of SOBRIETY
1
a mental state free of jesting or trifling <an abrupt sobriety fell over the group when they heard the news>
Synonyms earnest, graveness, gravity, intentness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness
Related Words gravitas, humorlessness; decisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolve; absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity
Near Antonyms lightness, shallowness, superficiality; dalliance, dilettantism; cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirth
Antonyms facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousness
2
voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites <although she can afford to wear anything, she practices a sartorial sobriety that bespeaks class and taste>
Related Words control, forbearance, restraint; discipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-mastery; asceticism, austerity
Near Antonyms gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity; hedonism, sensuality, sybaritism
Antonyms self-indulgence
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