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solemnness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of solemnness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

laid the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with all the solemnness that the occasion requires

Synonyms of solemnness

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

Words Related to solemnness

gravitas, humorlessness

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

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

Near Antonyms of solemnness

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

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

Antonyms of solemnness

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

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