earnestness
The quality of being earnestThe quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
She spoke with great earnestness about the issue.
His youthful earnestness impressed the audience.
an earnest and sincere feeling
Examples
6 sentencesI can assure you of his earnestness.
She was frightened by the earnestness of his manner.
There was a deadly earnestness about Tom. I think he's serious.
There was such earnestness, such despair, in her manner that her words arrested me, and I stood irresolute before the door.
"Don't you think it's a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child . . . ANY child?" exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness.
de„Findest du es nicht grausam und barbarisch, ein Kind, egal, was für eines, zu schlagen?“ rief Anne hochernster Miene aus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Forms
plural: earnestnesses| Singular | earnestness |
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regular
Synonyms
3 synonyms- an earnest and sincere feeling:seriousnesssincerity
- the trait of being serious:seriousnessserious-mindednesssincerity
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.