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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Earnestness \Ear"nest*ness\, n. The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. --W. Irving. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: earnestness n 1: an earnest and sincere feeling [syn: {seriousness}, {sincerity}] 2: the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice [syn: {seriousness}, {serious-mindedness}, {sincerity}] [ant: {frivolity}]
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