Seriousness vs Seriously - What's the difference?
seriousness | seriously |
The state or quality of being serious.
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(manner) In a serious or literal manner.
(speech act) (Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation)
(speech act)
As a noun seriousness
is the state or quality of being serious.As an adverb seriously is
(manner) in a serious or literal manner.seriousness
English
Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
- Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
seriously
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He was hoping that we would take him seriously .
- ''Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously .
- Now, seriously , why did you forget to feed the cat today?
- You baked 10 cakes. Seriously , why did you do that?
