Associations to the word «Seriousness»

Wiktionary

SERIOUSNESS, noun. The state or quality of being serious.

Dictionary definition

SERIOUSNESS, noun. An earnest and sincere feeling.
SERIOUSNESS, noun. The quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness".
SERIOUSNESS, noun. The trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King