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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the trait of being serious;
- Example: "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice
[syn: seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

serious-mindedness
    n 1: the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not
         necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice [syn:
         seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness,
         sincerity] [ant: frivolity, frivolousness]