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Seriousness (noun; adjective: serious) is an attitude of gravity, solemnity, persistence, and earnestness toward something considered to be of importance. [1] Some notable philosophers and commentators have criticised excessive seriousness, while others have praised it.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
An ambiguity that frequently arises is between a "sense of 'seriousness'" and a "sense of seriousness". The former is something detected in others, that they are serious, while the latter is a sense of what is serious and what is not, as used in developmental psychology, or theory of humor. PPdd 23:46, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Serious may refer to: Seriousness, an attitude of gravity, solemnity, persistence, or earnestness; Television. Serious, a BBC children's programme "Serious" ...
Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of the motives of others. [1] A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless.
Gravitas (Classical Latin: [ˈɡrawɪt̪aːs̠]) was one of the ancient Roman virtues [1] that denoted "seriousness". [2] It is also translated variously as weight, dignity, and importance and connotes restraint and moral rigor. [1] It also conveys a sense of responsibility and commitment to the task. [3]
Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.