seriousness
noun
earnest or sincere character or attitude.
unseriousness
-
a word derived from
seriousness.
Example Sentences
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Frankie Celenza approaches the Feast with a kind of joyful unseriousness — the exact mix of reverence and looseness that makes the tradition so lovable.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
But there were, in many of these dictionaries, a good deal of unseriousness to the apocalyptic warnings.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
Author Gershom Mabaquiao explains that the trend started off being about "the unseriousness of self-presentation", but since it has become bigger than social media and permeated society, it's being interpreted in a "very literal way".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
There’s no reason to equate beauty with unseriousness; you dismiss Kim, Cardi, and the uses and meaning of charm at your own peril, Comstock-Gay argues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Breckon, of course, does not admit this, but he has suggested that she was first attracted to him by a certain unseriousness which reminded her of Bittridge, in enabling him to take her seriousness lightly.
From The Kentons by William Dean Howells
