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Severance vs Seriousness - What's the difference?

severance | seriousness |

As nouns the difference between severance and seriousness

is that severance is the act of severing or the state of being severed while seriousness is the state or quality of being serious.

severance

English

Alternative forms

* severaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of severing or the state of being severed.
  • A separation.
  • A severance payment.

    • Synonyms

    * (separation) separation * (severance payment) severance payment, severance pay

    seriousness

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being serious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= 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.”}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 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?}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • 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.