as in earnestness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
studied the dance steps with obvious intentness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intentness
Noun
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Western, for his part, had by this time recovered something of his usual bluster, and began again upon the subject of Blifil, commending his estate and his family with great earnestness, as though these considerations alone ought to have settled the matter long since.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
2 June 2026 -
Even if the earnestness is genuine, Véliz worries that the use of religious terminology and imagery around AI—deliberately or not—can make honest conversation harder to have.—
Chris Stokel-Walker,
Scientific American,
26 May 2026
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The company that’s accustomed to defying gravity is now defying market physics.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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The fact that much of the region excluded by the team hasn't been explored experimentally lays the groundwork for making precise measurements of gravity to test quantum gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 June 2026
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Mexico’s 2-0 victory over South Africa on Thursday at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City was marked by three red cards, two goals and one massive tournament getting underway in earnest.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
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Semiconductor stocks — Chip manufacturers slid as the tech sell-off resumed in earnest on Tuesday.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
9 June 2026
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But Torres said those facts did not outweigh the seriousness of the allegations.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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In Susan Sontag’s classic formulation, camp is failed seriousness, while the tragicomic is a seriousness of failure.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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Gore is best known for Make America Great Again, her 2016 naked portrait of Trump with the paunch and solemnity of the great men of art history, adding, crucially, the tiniest of compensatory micropenises.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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As his own self-celebration has fizzled, a void has opened between the scheduled roster of events and the true purpose and meaning of the solemnity of July 4, 2026.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
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In those seconds, training and decisiveness matter most.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Aug. 2025
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Cole Palmer is their star but new recruits Joao Pedro, Liam Delap and Jamie Gittens will give them an extra cutting edge and decisiveness in the final third.—
Joe Prince-Wright,
NBC news,
14 Aug. 2025
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This month also reconnects you with a sense of purposefulness.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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The company is aiming squarely at a traveler who wants the convenience of commercial routes but the comfort and attentiveness that usually come with chartering a jet.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
4 Dec. 2025
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This kind of attentiveness has practical benefits, too.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Intentness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intentness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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