seriousness meaning and definition

SERIOUSNESS noun

Definition of seriousness (noun)

1. an earnest and sincere feeling
   • synonyms: earnestness, sincerity
2. the quality of arousing fear or distress
   • "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
   • synonyms: distressfulness
3. the trait of being serious
   • "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice
   • synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity
   • antonym: frivolity