Associations to the word «Earnestness»

Wiktionary

EARNESTNESS, noun. The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.

Dictionary definition

EARNESTNESS, noun. An earnest and sincere feeling.
EARNESTNESS, noun. The trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin