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intentness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of intentness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

studied the dance steps with obvious intentness

Synonyms of intentness

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

Words Related to intentness

gravitas, humorlessness

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

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

Near Antonyms of intentness

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

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

Antonyms of intentness

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

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