Synonym: distressfulness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity. Similar words: cautiousness, consciousness, capriciousness, fastidiousness, pretentiousness, stream of consciousness, callousness, arduousness. Meaning: ['sɪrɪəsnɪs /'sɪər-] 
n. 1. an earnest and sincere feeling 2. the quality of arousing fear or distress 3. the trait of being serious.
n. 1. an earnest and sincere feeling 2. the quality of arousing fear or distress 3. the trait of being serious. 
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91. Whilst the others joked, drank and flirted, they would sit in awkward seriousness.
92. Fashion has often been a foil to the seriousness of art.
93. They had the imagination of their times and the literal seriousness required for the absolute invention of their entire lives.
94. One intervention causes the next one to be needed and eventually leads to a cascade of interventions of increasing seriousness.
95. Considering the seriousness of the matter to be debated there was an unusually low attendance at the meeting.
96. The rule has a flavour of seriousness which suggests some moral culpability.
97. We wonder in all seriousness if alcohol had anything to do with it.
98. But they questioned the seriousness of the families and senior management.
99. Labour's stunning victory in 1997 left the Tory party in denial about the seriousness of its situation.
100. I wonder if he really appreciates the seriousness of the situation.
101. No brushed aluminium and rosewood here; its stereo systems are designed with graph-paper severity to put across an austere seriousness.
102. Furthermore, she assumed with the utmost seriousness the responsibilities of such an acceptance.
103. After the attempt the Prime Minister criticized the opposition for exaggerating the seriousness of the threat.
104. Consequently you can expect many people to question the seriousness of the organization and top management.
105. I approve the deadly seriousness, the piety, the need for something sacred in your life.
106. Step 5 Determine the extent of this behaviour; does its frequency or seriousness justify your efforts to try and alter it?
107. Check any narrow-minded seriousness at the door with your urban trench coat and get ready for an absolute annihilation of bourgeois civility.
108. What Hunt took as high seriousness, I took as a typical Lauda sideswipe, the fox laughing at the huntsman.
109. I overhear two girls talk in utmost seriousness and gravity about the gross inequities in the grading system. Sentencedict.com
110. There have been numerous examples of varying degrees of seriousness over the years.
111. But the teaching does treat adultery and divorce with the seriousness it deserves.
112. But it was a mark of Gielgud's essential seriousness that he did not succumb to the shallowness of the West End.
113. In conclusion, though there is no denying the seriousness of the problem, many questions still remain unanswered.
114. They agree about the seriousness of the crime statistics and the importance of full disclosure.
115. Well, apart from that camp every other day thrill ... But seldom with anything approaching seriousness.
116. To transfer this judgment of seriousness into desirable legal responses is no easy matter, however, for two powerful reasons.
117. He loved the look of seriousness that came over her face.
118. He sat at his desk, reading it, silently, with every external sign of seriousness.
119. He stood taut, arrogant and oblivious to the seriousness of his situation.
120. These discussions are characterised by an increasing scope and depth as the issues are accorded greater philosophical seriousness.
More similar words: cautiousness, consciousness, capriciousness, fastidiousness, pretentiousness, stream of consciousness, callousness, arduousness, nervousness, righteousness, serious, meticulousness, imperious, imperiously, mysterious, deleterious, meritorious, mysteriously, carelessness, uselessness, tactlessness, selflessness, faithlessness, powerlessness, limitlessness, furious, various, curious, usurious, nefarious.