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gravitas

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Synonyms and Antonyms of gravitas

formal a very serious quality or manner

The new leader has an air of gravitas that commands respect.

a comic actress who lacks the gravitas for dramatic roles

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of gravitas

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

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

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

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of gravitas

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

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

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

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