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earnestness

ear·nest·ness

US/ˈɝnɪstnəs/UK/ˈɜːnɪstnəs/

noun

What it means

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.

    quiet earnestness

    5 more examples

    22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttps://web.archive.org/web/20120323195428/http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

    She spoke with great earnestness about the issue.

    His youthful earnestness impressed the audience.

    sincere earnestness

    with complete earnestness

In a sentence

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttps://web.archive.org/web/20120323195428/http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

Where it comes from

From earnest + -ness.

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