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Definition of Earnestness
1. Noun. An earnest and sincere feeling.
Generic synonyms: Gravity, Solemnity
Derivative terms: Earnest, Sincere
2. Noun. The trait of being serious. "A lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"
Generic synonyms: Trait
Specialized synonyms: Commitment, Committedness, Graveness, Gravity, Soberness, Sobriety, Somberness, Sombreness, Sedateness, Solemness, Solemnity, Staidness
Attributes: Serious, Frivolous
Derivative terms: Earnest, Earnest, Serious-minded, Serious, Serious, Serious, Sincere
Antonyms: Frivolity
Definition of Earnestness
1. n. The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.
Definition of Earnestness
1. Noun. The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earnestness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Earnestness
Literary usage of Earnestness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Hugh Price Hughes' definition of the essential requisites of modern preaching
are "simplicity, flexibility, spontaneity and earnestness"—qualities of his ..."
2. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... Earnestness, VEHEMENCE, AVIDITY—ARDOUR IN PURSUIT. ... to feek knowledge with
Earnestness, to prefs an argument with VEHEMENCE, ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... ns ho severally came opposite to them, in tho earnestness of his feeling, nnd
from wishing to IKS of service to them by making himself ..."
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