earnestness
urnuhst nuhs
- n an earnest and sincere feeling
- n the trait of being serious
- Lessing's earnestness can be too much at times, but as a portrait of a woman coming to grips with the realities of her time her book is indispensable.
- We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony.
- Finally, though, Traffic, for all its earnestness, does not work.