Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being unserious.
What a lamentable murk of problematism now befogs this spectacle of unseriosity, the American college.
2014 October 29, Katy Waldman, “There Is an Actual Ivy League Class Called ‘Wasting Time on the Internet,’ and I’d Take It”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 20204 more examples
So my question is, is the unseriosity of Chung Moo Kwan only a problem of the schools in North America, or is it a problem in general?
1994 December 19, Michael Knuemann, “Chung Moo Doe”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 May 2024While Hyperland was in production, Douglas was invited to join a California-based think tank called the Vivarium, set up at Apple in the mid-1980s, where his role was to provide ‘unseriosity’.
2003, M.J. Simpson, chapter 34, in Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 264Perković, Zorislav (2002): Bijeg u neozbiljnost (Escape to Unseriosity). – Zagreb : Horetzky, (In Croatian)
2006, Dušica Seferagić, “The Pyramidal Network of Settlements in Croatia”, in Sociologija sela, volume 44, Zagreb: Institute for Social Research of Zagreb, →ISSN, UDK 371.214:373.3(4)(497.5), section “Literature”, page 366Jacobs Salty & Bamboozling Ladder are specialists for a certain serious unseriosity, which lets the bands^([sic]) notion of Donald Trump, Micheal^([sic]) Jackson and Brigitte Bardot getting drunk together break through sometimes.
a. 2024, “JSBL (AT)”, in A38, Budapest, archived from the original on 14 May 2024Synonyms: unseriousness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being unserious.
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