as in intentness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
the doctor's unexpected graveness warned us that the news was bad
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gravity
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Everyone was kind, thoughtful and respectful, but there was a part of me also wanting to soak it up because knew the gravity of the moment.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
7 Aug. 2025 -
Brown, as Medwin, proceeds over all this trouble—so many secrets, so much inevitable violence—with a wise gravity.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Graveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveness. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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