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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151. There are plenty of simple ways you can impress your girlfriend, regardless of the level of seriousness in your relationship, age, and amount of liquid capital (cash).
152. Dragged shoeless from the court , he contemplated questions with great seriousness while occasionally a salad.
153. He should be treated with due seriousness — despite that " appeasement " over Iraq.
154. To prove the seriousness of his crossover bid, he brought several American stars on stage.
155. "Mark Twain's humor will live forever, " said William Dean Howells, a famous American author and critic, "He had a true heart and a deep seriousness.
156. A lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness.
157. In view of the seriousness of the matter , I'll speak from a written text.
158. What he proposed was lighthearted seriousness or serious lightheartedness -- like that of a sportsman in a game or an actor in a play.
159. The change of her views actually reflects the inherent contradiction of mass culture:between fighting and tameness, seriousness and anti-intellectualism.
160. Analysts also say the seriousness of the crisis will depend on whether Greece stays within the euro common-currency zone or is forced to leave it, and return to the drachma as its national currency.
161. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry to undertake a post without knowledge and without capacity.
162. With nonsense verse, he demonstrated his unique world view, recorded the social situation of his time and displayed his objection to the Victorian seriousness and portentousness.
163. Although say some are exaggeratedly , but also can explain on certain level the morning is suckedSmokeharm sex and seriousness.
164. The control and seriousness with which both teams played neutralised any creative licence, any moments of exquisite skill.
165. His speech struck a perfect balance between humor and seriousness.
166. How can we bring home to him the seriousness of his conduct?
167. You see life as an enthusiastic frolic, and there is little seriousness in you.
168. Despite official recognition in the DSM, those with hypochondriasis are often treated with the respect and seriousness of a Scott Baio film festival.
169. The brocade lotus is got a fright, ambitioned to detect out jocose trace from the face of vegetable heart(sentencedict.com), plain heart in always seriousness of appearance where be favor is joking.
170. By making sin a purely external thing its seriousness was minimized.
171. Of a print run of 3, 000, 1, 500 were immediately exported for sale and these thoroughly uncommercial productions soon acquired the seriousness of hard cash.
172. There is no clear line of demarcation between serious literature and popular literature. Seriousness and popularness are interchangeable.
173. Julie Ingelfinger, a Harvard Medical School professor and pediatric nephrologist, said many people had overlooked the seriousness of complications caused by contaminated food.
174. Although say some are exaggeratedly , but the harm sex that also can explain on certain level the morning smokes and seriousness.
175. The seriousness of these two diseases could hardly be exaggerated.
176. And a major telco recently asked me - in all seriousness - why It'should bother maintaining the'Net.
177. Although these figures are only rough estimates, they do strikingly underline the seriousness of the problem.
178. For many, the seriousness of the illness outweighs any risks these drugs have, " said Margy Lawrence, of Potomac, Maryland, a patient representative on the advisory panel.
179. Of course, a small penalty rate would not have solved the moral hazard problem; but it would have signalled the seriousness of the central bank in facing up to it.
180. But thematic seriousness and low comedy coexist in Chaucer and Shakespeare, while emotional truth and physical caricature get along just fine in Dickens.
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.