seriousness

n 1: an earnest and sincere feeling [syn: {earnestness}, {sincerity}]

2: the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the

seriousness of his illness" [syn: {distressfulness}]

3: the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not

necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice [syn: {earnestness},

{serious-mindedness}, {sincerity}] [ant: {frivolity}]