The trait of being serious.
The quality of arousing fear or distress.
1 Mr Sutton also urged Victorians to understand the ' seriousness ' of this situation.
2 Then, the true seriousness of his situation jarred him back to reality.
3 Roosevelt sent for the General and explained the seriousness of the crisis.
4 Our great public service broadcaster's seriousness and due impartiality is in question.
5 The military authorities were certainly alive to the seriousness of the business.
6 Once again, the Minister appears to underestimate the seriousness of the situation.
7 But I really don't think you realize the seriousness of this situation.
8 Manfred regarded him for a moment, assessing the seriousness of Dare's words.
9 You must stay until the Spring Festival, he said, with absolute seriousness .
10 The seriousness with which the man falls in love startles the girl.
11 Mr Mills said he could not overstate the seriousness of these matters.
12 He did not then realize the seriousness which was in the matter.
13 We regard this as a matter of the utmost seriousness and urgency.
14 Laughter greeted this sally, in spite of the seriousness of the situation.
15 The seriousness of age takes the place of the jollity of youth.
16 However, the vernacular performance of bemused seriousness translates oddly to the page.
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