Synonyms of gravity

gravity

noun

ˈgra-və-tē 

as in intentness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

the hospital waiting room was filled with the kind of gravity that inevitably accompanies worry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intentness
• seriousness
• earnestness
• graveness
• solemnity
• earnest
• decisiveness
• solemnness
• intensity
• purposefulness
• attentiveness
• soberness
• sobriety
• staidness
• gravitas
• concentration
• serious-mindedness
• deliberation
• determination
• resolve
• resoluteness
• absorption
• immersion
• firmness
• humorlessness
• engrossment
• enthrallment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lightness
• levity
• play
• flippancy
• lightheartedness
• lightness
• frivolity
• frivolousness
• facetiousness
• flightiness
• superficiality
• shallowness
• unseriousness
• dalliance
• mirth
• dilettantism
• cheerfulness
• gaiety
• gayety
• glee
• merriment
• high-spiritedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gravity

However, few voters or members of the Republican party seem to appreciate the gravity of what is happening. —Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2025

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

Instead, the team's simulations indicated that, if there were enough of these less massive primordial black holes, the influence of their gravity would generate tidal forces within vast clouds of gas and heat them. —Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2025