Associations to the word «Seriousness»

Wiktionary

SERIOUSNESS, noun. The state or quality of being serious.

Dictionary definition

SERIOUSNESS, noun. An earnest and sincere feeling.
SERIOUSNESS, noun. The quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness".
SERIOUSNESS, noun. The trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke