Synonym: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity. Similar words: earnest, earnestly, harness, in harness, witness, fitness, greatness, eagerness. Meaning: [ɜnɪstnɪs /ɜːn-] 
n. 1. an earnest and sincere feeling 2. the trait of being serious.
n. 1. an earnest and sincere feeling 2. the trait of being serious. 31. All of this can only bring the popular phrase officialdom thought " false earnestness andthe motions. "
32. How could you forget that with all their simplicity, earnestness and unyieldingness, they are symbolic of our peasants in the North?
33. There was about Jephson a hard , integrated earnestness which soon convinced Clyde.
More similar words: earnest, earnestly, harness, in harness, witness, fitness, greatness, eagerness, wilderness, hornet's nest, weariness, learned, selflessness, tactlessness, nest, honest, soonest, honestly, amnesty, oneness, dishonest, shyness, sadness, finesse, madness, anesthetic, kindness, hardness, sickness, awareness.