seriousness
Syllables: se·ri·ous·ness/ˈsɪəɹiəsnəs/US/ˈsɪɹiəsnəs/
seriousness noun: the state or quality of being serious.
Noun
seriousness (countable and uncountable, plural seriousnesses)
- The state or quality of being serious.
- “[…] 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.”1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- ‘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?1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- earnestness, seriosity, sobriety
- Antonyms:
- jocularity, levity, unseriousness
seriousness meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
seriousness in Tamil
- seriousness, earnestness, attention
- பத்தியம் pattiyam
seriousness in Marathi
- seriousness
- गांभीर्य gāmbhīrya
seriousness in Urdu
- متانت, سنجیدگی
seriousness in Bengali
- আন্তরিক
More languagesFewer languages
- seriousness in Malayalam
- ഘനം ghanaṁ
- seriousness in Arabic
- جِدِّيَّة jiddiyya
Examples of seriousness in a sentence
- Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetises the area before treatment.
- Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetised the area before treatment.
- Because of the seriousness of the injury the doctor is anaesthetising the area before treatment.
Synonyms of seriousness
Antonyms
Forms of seriousness
| plural | seriousnesses |
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Origin of seriousness
From serious + -ness.
Words formed from seriousness
Questions about seriousness
- What does seriousness mean?
- Seriousness means the state or quality of being serious.
- What is seriousness in Tamil?
- Seriousness in Tamil is பத்தியம் (pattiyam). See Seriousness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is seriousness?
- Seriousness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seriousness?
- Seriousness is pronounced /ˈsɪɹiəsnəs/ (US).
- What is the plural of seriousness?
- The plural of seriousness is seriousnesses.
Words near seriousness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: seriousness (page history and authors); பத்தியம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); गांभीर्य (Marathi) (page history and authors); seriousness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seriousness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഘനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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