Synonyms for seriousness
se·ri·ous·ness

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1. seriousness

   Synonyms:
   dulness, gravity, sobriety, solemnity, stolidity, stupidity

   Antonyms:
   banter, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, humor, jest, jocularity, joke, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, waggery, waggishness, wit, witticism

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1. earnestness, seriousness, sinceritynoun

   an earnest and sincere feeling

   Synonyms:
   earnestness, unassumingness, distressfulness, sincerity, serious-mindedness

   Antonyms:
   frivolity, frivolousness

2. seriousness, distressfulnessnoun

   the quality of arousing fear or distress

   "he learned the seriousness of his illness"

   Synonyms:
   earnestness, distressfulness, sincerity, serious-mindedness

   Antonyms:
   frivolousness, frivolity

3. seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sinceritynoun

   the trait of being serious

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

   Synonyms:
   earnestness, unassumingness, distressfulness, sincerity, serious-mindedness

   Antonyms:
   frivolousness, frivolity

Matched Categories

1. • Badness
   • Gravity
   • Trait

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1. seriousnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   gravity, solemnity, demureness, sedateness

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1. seriousnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   gravity

   Antonyms:
   levity, frivolity, triviality

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1. List of paraphrases for "seriousness":

   gravity, severity, solemnity, earnestness, serious, magnitude, earnest, acuteness, sincerity

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1. Drew Hammill:

   Once again, House Republicans are crawling to the courts to relieve them of their responsibility to govern, republicans should stop wasting millions of taxpayer dollars suing the President, and start showing some seriousness for the security of the American people.

2. Nate Oats:

   I thought it was important for me to clarify the unfortunate remarks I made earlier, in no way did I intend to downplay the seriousness of this situation or the tragedy of that night.

3. Jarred Evans:

   Jarred Evans holed up in Jarred Evans home for a week and a half until Jarred Evans received the news that the U.S. Embassy was evacuating its diplomats and their families and other U.S. citizens. Jarred Evans was notified that a chartered flight would carry some of the 1,000 or so Americans in Wuhan back to the United States the next day. An acquaintance who drove Jarred Evans to the airport and U.S. officials notified Chinese authorities of the license plate number so that the car was allowed to drive on the streets. On the plane chartered by the U.S. to take the evacuees home were two men in full hazardous material suits who warned them about the seriousness of the outbreak. Nobody appeared sick but all of passengers decided to wear masks throughout the flight, Jarred Evans said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The plane flew to Anchorage, where the passengers had health screenings, and they cheered and applauded when the jet landed at the California base. Jarred Evans said the muted social experience on the base has been strange Im a very hands-on person.

4. Timothy Naftali:

   'these are the holes' and say to President Trump 'we want you to have your chance to defend yourself' and he will say 'no,' I suspect, if the American people think the rush is all about the New Hampshire primary and not about the problem of getting documents from the White House, they are not going to understand the seriousness of this.

5. Police Chief Gorden Eden:

   In imposing the discipline of termination, I considered the seriousness of the acts and omissions, aggravating circumstances and Officer Dear's disciplinary record.