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seriousness
1. An earnest and sincere feeling; earnestness, sincerity.
2. The quality of arousing fear or distress; distressfulness.
3. The trait of being serious; serious-mindedness, earnestness, sincerity.
4. Gravity of manner or of mind; solemnity: "He spoke with with an air of seriousness."
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