as in intentness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
the doctor's unexpected graveness warned us that the news was bad
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The primary driver of these changes is the cephalad fluid shift — the upward movement of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that is normally pulled toward our feet by gravity.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026 -
Neither did the other women obsessed not just with the lung-searing, leg-burning intensity of a cross-country ski race, but also with the gravity-defying, jaw-dropping sensation of flying.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Every season teams vie with utmost seriousness for a title that doesn’t do them any good at all when the next season comes just a few months later.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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Anthropic’s founders, as a costly signal of their seriousness, ultimately pledged to give away eighty per cent of their wealth.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The filmmaker leans pop-comic rather than petrifying in his final draft, opting for earnestness that smothers atmospheric dread.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 2026
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There are times in which Moonglow feels like an amateur production, even if the craft level remains high and Sandoval’s earnestness in capturing the genre’s essence feels admirable.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Graveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graveness. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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