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seriousness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of seriousness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

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

Synonyms of seriousness

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

Words Related to seriousness

gravitas, humorlessness

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

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

Near Antonyms of seriousness

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

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

Antonyms of seriousness

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

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