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graveness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of graveness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

the doctor's unexpected graveness warned us that the news was bad

Synonyms of graveness

earnest, earnestness, gravity, intentness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness

Words Related to graveness

gravitas, humorlessness

decisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolve

absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity

Near Antonyms of graveness

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirth

Antonyms of graveness

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousness

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