STAIDNESS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

staidness

noun

Definition of staidness

as in intentness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling the staidness of the Quaker meeting was surprising to those accustomed to more exuberant services

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No bigger than a microwave oven, Idefix will plop onto Phobos by itself, bouncing for several minutes before coming to a halt in the moon's extraordinarily low gravity.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
At the time, Rastinejad and her colleagues wondered whether a black hole’s gravity had ripped up a companion neutron star, as if unseen godly hands had pulled it apart like dough.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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But the earnestness of their performances, the texture of their hesitation, makes the video far more compelling than any of its deepfake counterparts.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Still, there’s something to the earnestness with which the movie does finally have its daddy issues and its cetacean ones intersect.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

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