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se·ri·ous·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. earnestness, seriousness, sinceritynoun

    an earnest and sincere feeling

  2. seriousness, distressfulnessnoun

    the quality of arousing fear or distress

    "he learned the seriousness of his illness"

  3. seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sinceritynoun

    the trait of being serious

    "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice

Wiktionary

  1. seriousnessnoun

    a state of being serious

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Seriousnessnoun

    Gravity; solemnity; earnest attention.

    Etymology: from serious.

    That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of libertinism and profaneness started up in the room of it. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

    The youth was received at the door by a servant, who then conducted him with great silence and seriousness to a long gallery, which was darkened at noon-day. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

Wikipedia

  1. Seriousness

    Seriousness (noun; adjective: serious) is an attitude of gravity, solemnity, persistence, and earnestness toward something considered to be of importance. Some notable philosophers and commentators have criticised excessive seriousness, while others have praised it. Seriousness is often contrasted with comedy, as in the seriocomedy. In the theory of humor, one must have a sense of humor and a sense of seriousness to distinguish what is supposed to be taken literally or not, or of being important or not. Otherwise, it may also be contrasted with a sense of play. How children learn a sense of seriousness to form values and differentiate between the serious and that which is not is studied in developmental psychology and educational psychology. There is a distinction between the degree of seriousness of various crimes in sentencing under the law, and also in law enforcement. There is a positive correlation with the degree of seriousness of a crime and viewer ratings of news coverage. What is or is not considered serious varies widely with different cultures.Sometimes fields studying degrees of seriousness overlap, such as developmental psychology studies of development of the sense of degrees of seriousness as it relates to transgressions, which has overlap with criminology and the seriousness of crimes.

ChatGPT

  1. seriousness

    Seriousness is the quality of being earnest, sincere, or deeply thoughtful. It is a state of being serious, which can imply a degree of urgency or importance in regard to a particular matter, behavior or attitude. This can apply to a variety of contexts, such as a serious medical condition, a serious discussion, or a serious person. It usually contrasts with concepts like triviality, insignificance, humor or light-heartedness.

Wikidata

  1. Seriousness

    Seriousness is an attitude of gravity, solemnity, persistence, and earnestness toward something considered to be of importance. Some notable philosophers and commentators have criticised excessive seriousness, while others have praised it. Seriousness is often contrasted with comedy, as in the seriocomedy. In the theory of humor, one must have a sense of humor and a sense of seriousness to distinguish what is supposed to be taken literally or not, or of being important or not. Otherwise, it may also be contrasted with a sense of play. How children learn a sense of seriousness to form values and differentiate between the serious and that which is not is studied in developmental psychology and educational psychology. There is a distinction between the degree of seriousness of various crimes in sentencing under the law, and also in law enforcement. There is a positive correlation with the degree of seriousness of a crime and viewer ratings of news coverage. What is or is not considered serious varies widely with different cultures. Sometimes fields studying degrees of seriousness overlap, such as developmental psychology studies of development of the sense of degrees of seriousness as it relates to transgressions, which has overlap with criminology and the seriousness of crimes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of seriousness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of seriousness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of seriousness in a Sentence

  1. Li Xigen:

    They know the seriousness of the situation and the possible consequences, and they don't want the media coverage to bring any kind of extra damage, later, as the situation gets worse, if the people are actually affected with their jobs, with prices ... that may become real anger, and if the media do anything to stir up that kind of anger it will cause some kind of very bad consequences.

  2. Timothy Fox:

    If President Biden is willing to spurn some environmentalists within his base to keep nuclear power alive, it may reinforce his seriousness about achieving the target, and that means natural gas should not expect support as a ‘bridge fuel,’.

  3. Klaus Naumann:

    A measure of the seriousness with which Israel Israel took Israel Israel moral duties and Israel Israel responsibilities under the laws of armed conflict is that in some cases Israel’s scrupulous adherence to the laws of war cost Israeli soldiers ’ and civilians ’ lives.

  4. Equifax Chief Executive Mark Begor:

    It is reassuring that our federal law enforcement agencies treat cybercrime – especially state-sponsored crime – with the seriousness it deserves.

  5. Barbara Streisand:

    They have different personalities, i’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [Samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness.

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