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gravity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of gravity

a mental state free of jesting or trifling
  • He uttered the oath with proper gravity.
Synonyms of gravity

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

gravitas, humorlessness

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

absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity
Near Antonyms of gravity

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

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

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

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