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

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras