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Earnestness vs Staidness - What's the difference?

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Earnestness is a related term of staidness.


As nouns the difference between earnestness and staidness

is that earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness while staidness is the state or characteristic of being staid.

earnestness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.

    • staidness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or characteristic of being staid.
  • * 1836 , , Sketches of Boz , ch. 7:
    • It is difficult to say whether Mr. John Dounce's red countenance, illuminated as it was by the flickering gas-light in the window before which he paused, excited the lady's risibility, or whether a natural exuberance of animal spirits proved too much for that staidness of demeanour which the forms of society rather dictatorially prescribe.
  • * 1887 , , Under the Storm , ch. 22:
    • [T]here was a staidness and sobriety about her demeanour that kept all impertinence at a distance.