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–noun

seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.

[Origin: 1920–25; < L gravitās; see gravity

]

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n.

Substance; weightiness: a frivolous biography that lacks the gravitas of its subject.
A serious or dignified demeanor: "Our national father figure needs gravitas, [but] he's pitched himself as the kid brother" (John Leo).

[Latin gravitās, heaviness, seriousness; see gravity.]

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