Synonyms of seriousness

seriousness

noun

as in intentness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

we knew from the doctor's seriousness that she didn't have good news

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intentness
• gravity
• earnestness
• solemnity
• earnest
• graveness
• solemnness
• decisiveness
• soberness
• attentiveness
• intensity
• purposefulness
• sobriety
• staidness
• deliberation
• gravitas
• serious-mindedness
• determination
• resoluteness
• concentration
• resolve
• humorlessness
• immersion
• firmness
• absorption
• engrossment
• enthrallment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• levity
• flippancy
• lightheartedness
• frivolity
• lightness
• facetiousness
• frivolousness
• play
• flightiness
• lightness
• superficiality
• unseriousness
• shallowness
• dilettantism
• mirth
• cheerfulness
• dalliance
• glee
• gaiety
• merriment
• high-spiritedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of seriousness

These statements show a total disregard for confidentiality, basic investigative standards and the seriousness of ethics violations. — Collin Corbett, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Adults’s Gen-Z characters tend to see their comforts as transient, their identities as mutable, and seriousness as an annoying obligation, all of which the second season pokes at a bit. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Yet his rich voice and easy charm lent even the cheesiest lines a kind of Shakespearian seriousness, and watching him was like having an expensive meal and comfort food at the same time. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2026

On a case-by-case basis, the IFR will take into account the seriousness, nature, and circumstances surrounding the offence. — Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Interim Police Chief Doug Brinkley issued an executive order May 20 barring officers from initiating pursuits solely for minor traffic offenses or city ordinance violations unless something increases the seriousness of the incident. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Her ethos has long been that each opponent should be treated with equal seriousness. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Critics have struggled to decipher the seriousness or slant of Von’s politics. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2026

To make the shame of export controls about sales lost is to insult the seriousness of the sales process. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026