seriousness

英 ['sɪərɪəsnəs] 美['sɪrɪəsnəs]

• n. 严重性；严肃；认真

1. an earnest and sincere feeling

2. the quality of arousing fear or distress;

"he learned the seriousness of his illness"

3. the trait of being serious;

"a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice