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
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Recent Examples of gravity
As enterprises increasingly embrace hybrid architectures, private cloud can act as the anchor, offering a control plane to orchestrate workloads based on latency, data gravity and compliance.
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Madhavi Rajan, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The broader move away from centralized ingestion reflects a recognition that data gravity, scale, and speed have outgrown older architectures.
—K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 18 May 2026
This Willy is not a comedian reaching for gravity.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 May 2026
Experiment with how gravity and the elements work with and against each other using miniature wind tunnels, or rattle tables to test how building-block houses might withstand an earthquake.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 16 May 2026
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Madhavi Rajan, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The broader move away from centralized ingestion reflects a recognition that data gravity, scale, and speed have outgrown older architectures.
—K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 18 May 2026
This Willy is not a comedian reaching for gravity.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 May 2026
Experiment with how gravity and the elements work with and against each other using miniature wind tunnels, or rattle tables to test how building-block houses might withstand an earthquake.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 16 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gravity
Noun
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Though soaps were not without their occasional levity, the earnest self-seriousness of their proceedings often prevented them from engaging in self-reflexive critique.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Beyond the incident’s seriousness, its precedent-setting disclosure is a warning to boards that underestimate or disregard shadow AI risk.—
Noah Barsky,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Noun
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The earnestness of the Islanders was meant to be offset by the humor of production.—
Anna Peele,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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But earnestness is the enemy of hilarity.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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“Gravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravity. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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