seriousness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an earnest and sincere feeling
Types & categories
- solemnity hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the quality of arousing fear or distress
he learned the seriousness of his illness
Types & categories
- severity hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the trait of being serious
a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness
Types & categories
- trait hypernym
- commitment hyponym
- graveness hyponym
- sedateness hyponym
Related & opposite
- frivolity antonym
- serious attribute
- frivolous attribute
- serious derivation
- businesslike derivation
- serious derivation
- earnest derivation
- serious-minded derivation
- unplayful derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | earnest |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | heartfelt |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | solemnity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grievous |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | worrying |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | severity |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | frivolity |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | serious |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | frivolous |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | serious |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | businesslike |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | serious |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | earnest |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | serious-minded |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | unplayful |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | trait |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | commitment |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | graveness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sedateness |