seriousness   (TTS Sound)

The noun seriousness has 3 senses

• earnestness, seriousness, sincerity -- (an earnest and sincere feeling)


• seriousness, distressfulness -- (the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness")


• seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity -- (the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice)