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
Both centrifuges are used to model intense gravity to compress time and scale in experiments – which essentially lets scientists simulate long-term or large-scale physical phenomena such as dam structural integrity, earthquake damage, landslides, nuclear waste storage and more.
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New Atlas, 7 Jan. 2026
That means the oldest of oak and hickory predate the American Revolution, the Spanish Inquisition and Isaac Newton’s experiments with gravity.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
In 2025, the four tournaments paid out over $285 million between them, while their leaders spent the year shadowboxing with the players who make their events unmissable, whose gravity pulls in the broadcast deals and sponsorships, with their own dollar signs and zeroes.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
That doesn’t work for gravity, though.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
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New Atlas, 7 Jan. 2026
That means the oldest of oak and hickory predate the American Revolution, the Spanish Inquisition and Isaac Newton’s experiments with gravity.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
In 2025, the four tournaments paid out over $285 million between them, while their leaders spent the year shadowboxing with the players who make their events unmissable, whose gravity pulls in the broadcast deals and sponsorships, with their own dollar signs and zeroes.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
That doesn’t work for gravity, though.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gravity
Noun
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Rodriguez noted that the law at the center of the battle doesn’t permit her to consider the seriousness of the offense nor the impact on the victims.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement This is not a failure of seriousness so much as a shift in how seriousness is encountered.—
Debbie Millman,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The current leading lights in rock are largely admired for their raw earnestness.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Part of what comes to me, Roxana, is my sincerity and my earnestness.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Gravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravity. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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