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.
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121. So far, the intensity of these controversies is all out of proportion to the seriousness of the suspected offenses.
122. Even these shocking statistics understate the seriousness of the situation.
123. Our fellow sleeper is large and silent, a heavy seriousness dictates his majestic arrival in striped pyjamas.
124. The material on which the congressional record is founded is done there every day in all seriousness.
125. At a news conference in Nairobi on Aug. 6 Kouchner spoke in the strongest possible terms of the seriousness of the situation.
126. Whether the conservative, hidebound publishing establishment will treat such works with the seriousness they deserve is of course another matter.
127. No one doubts the seriousness of the problems Mr Major must address, the recession foremost among them.
128. Such incidents happen with greater or lesser degrees of seriousness at regular intervals in all our lives.
129. In short, everything depends upon the seriousness of the particular incident in question and upon the significance of the surrounding circumstances.
130. Lianzhu is the combination of stylistic vivacity and seriousness.
131. The seriousness seemed ludicrous to Winterborne.
132. Don't overestimate seriousness of the problem.
133. They had shown a commitment and seriousness of purpose.
134. "Their friends and family consider them kooky," Bader said. "Everyone is saying they're nuts. So, they have a real aggressive style and seriousness of purpose. They want to prove everyone wrong.
135. I immediately recognized the seriousness of the problem: I will not be diagnosed Alzheimers disease, right?
136. All residents must take fire precautions with the seriousness they deserve.
137. There are moments joviality, but the rest of the time belongs to seriousness.
138. Many parts of the released files are whited out and the FBI's ultimate targets are unclear, but the seriousness with which the agency treated the investigation is unquestionable.
139. Between the innocence of babyhood and the seriousness of manhood we find a delightful creature called a "boy".
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140. But by recalling its papal nuncio from Dublin in order to take part in consultations in Rome, it is publicly recognising the seriousness of the situation.
141. For willy - nilly he took his Baronetcy and Wragby with the last seriousness.
142. While on the surface or the seriousness to say yes to the following human development.
143. The seriousness of the imposed requests were like a red rag to a bull.
144. Despite the pervasiveness and potential seriousness of bullying, it is a problem that often escapes detection by teachers.
145. He came up to me when it was almost midnight and advised me, in all seriousness, to put up a camp bed to sleep in the office.
146. And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness.
147. Your records a litmus test of your seriousness a trader.
148. It makes sincerity turn to hypocrisy, cleverness turn to slyness and seriousness turn to dogma. Enough is enough.
149. A foretastes of seriousness of incivility is suggested by what has been happening in Houston.
150. The difficulties between Bulgaria and Roumania also appear to be approaching a crisis, and no attempt is made to disguise the seriousness of the situation.
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.