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SERIOUS-MINDEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serious-mindedness mean? 

SERIOUS-MINDEDNESS (noun)
  The noun SERIOUS-MINDEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being seriousplay

  Familiarity information: SERIOUS-MINDEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SERIOUS-MINDEDNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being serious

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

earnestness; serious-mindedness; seriousness; sincerity

Context example:

a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness

Hypernyms ("serious-mindedness" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Attribute:

serious (concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities)

frivolous (not serious in content or attitude or behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serious-mindedness"):

commitment; committedness (the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose)

graveness; gravity; soberness; sobriety; somberness; sombreness (a manner that is serious and solemn)

sedateness; solemness; solemnity; staidness (a trait of dignified seriousness)

Derivation:

serious-minded (acting with or showing thought and good sense)


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