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seriousness noun [ ˈsɪərɪəsnəs ]

• the quality or state of being serious.
• "we are aware of the seriousness of the situation"
Similar: solemnity, solemnness, earnestness, graveness, gravity, gravitas, soberness, sobriety, sombreness, sternness, grimness, dourness, humourlessness, thoughtfulness, preoccupation, pensiveness, importance, significance, consequence, momentousness, moment, weightiness, weight, urgency, crucialness, vitalness, severity, severeness, acuteness, grievousness, extremity, danger, dangerousness, perilousness, sincerity, wholeheartedness, genuineness, commitment, firmness, resolution, resolve, determination,
Opposite: cheerfulness, joviality, triviality, unimportance,

in all seriousness

• very seriously; not as a joke.
"I ask this question in all seriousness"



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