seriousness🔊

The state or quality of being serious.

📑 Synonyms: earnestness seriosity

💬 Quotations

“ […] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”

W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp

‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […] ? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

Margery Allingham, The China Governess