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Staidness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state or characteristic of being staid.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or levity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or character of being staid; sobriety; gravity; sedateness; steadiness: as, staidness and sobriety of age.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a trait of dignified seriousness

Word Usage

"There is a whole category of ersatz adults who've mistaken the apparent staidness of the grownups (who they observe from the outside) for the qualifying characteristic of adulthood and tried to skip the scary merry-go-round."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

serious-mindedness seriousness earnestness sincerity

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sedateness steadiness sobriety stability firmness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

representativeness elegancy renouncer self-reverence demureness