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Noun seriousness has 3 senses

earnestness, seriousness, sincerity - an earnest and sincere feeling
--₁ is a kind of gravity, solemnity
seriousness, distressfulness - the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
--₂ is a kind of badness, severity
seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity - the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice
--₃ is a kind of trait
Antonyms: frivolity, frivolousness
--₃ has particulars:
committedness, commitment; graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness; sedateness, staidness, solemnity, solemness