as in intentness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
the hospital waiting room was filled with the kind of gravity that inevitably accompanies worry
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The gravity of her testimony can underscore the seriousness of the charges and may impact how both the facts and the defendants are viewed, consciously or not.
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Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Making Mars as habitable as Antarctica during the polar night would be the greatest technological undertaking humanity has ever taken by many orders of magnitude, in order to create a place that nobody would want to live, and where the gravity would still be too low.
—ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
The real-life developments have lent new gravity to the film's depiction of the papal election process—a secretive, tradition-laden event now in motion in Rome.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
At each vote, a cardinal will write his choice on a piece of paper, process up to Michaelangelo’s giant fresco of the last judgment – which serves as a reminder of the gravity and sacredness of their responsibility – and drop his ballot in a chalice.
—Peter Pinedo, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Making Mars as habitable as Antarctica during the polar night would be the greatest technological undertaking humanity has ever taken by many orders of magnitude, in order to create a place that nobody would want to live, and where the gravity would still be too low.
—ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
The real-life developments have lent new gravity to the film's depiction of the papal election process—a secretive, tradition-laden event now in motion in Rome.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
At each vote, a cardinal will write his choice on a piece of paper, process up to Michaelangelo’s giant fresco of the last judgment – which serves as a reminder of the gravity and sacredness of their responsibility – and drop his ballot in a chalice.
—Peter Pinedo, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Gravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravity. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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