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English Synonyms and Antonyms
earnestness
The old meaning of enthusiasm implies a pseudo-inspiration, an almost frantic extravagance in behalf of something supposed to be an expression of the divine will. This sense remains as the controlling one in the kindred noun enthusiast. Enthusiasm has now chiefly the meaning of an earnest and commendable devotion, an intense and eager interest. Against the hindrances of the world, nothing great and good can be carried without a certain fervor, intensity, and vehemence; these joined with faith, courage, and hopefulness make enthusiasm. Zeal is burning earnestness, always tending to vigorous action with all the devotion of enthusiasm, tho often without its hopefulness. Compare EAGER.
Synonyms:
ardor, devotion, eagerness, ecstasy, enthusiasm, excitement, extravagance, fanaticism, fervency, fervor, frenzy, inspiration, intensity, passion, rapture, transport, vehemence, warmth, zealAntonyms:
calculation, calmness, caution, coldness, deadness, dulness, indifference, lukewarmness, policy, prudence, timidity, wariness
Princeton's WordNet
earnestness, seriousness, sinceritynoun
an earnest and sincere feeling
Synonyms:
unassumingness, seriousness, distressfulness, sincerity, serious-mindednessseriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sinceritynoun
the trait of being serious
"a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice
Synonyms:
unassumingness, seriousness, distressfulness, sincerity, serious-mindedness
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
earnestnessnoun
Synonyms:
ardor, sincerity, fervency, seriousness, intentness, unction
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1747 | transport | |
#4973 | passion | |
#6471 | intensity | |
#7011 | inspiration | |
#9726 | excitement | |
#10948 | enthusiasm | |
#13564 | warmth | |
#16050 | devotion | |
#18665 | frenzy | |
#18873 | ecstasy | |
#24329 | seriousness | |
#25078 | zeal | |
#25552 | rapture | |
#27844 | sincerity | |
#46529 | eagerness | |
#49238 | fervor | |
#56878 | fanaticism | |
#59392 | extravagance | |
#67470 | earnestness | |
#77455 | ardor | |
#86052 | vehemence | |
#301721 | fervency |
How to use earnestness in a sentence?
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects:
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_:
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
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