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Today's Word "gravitas"

High seriousness on

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gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\ (noun) - High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject).

"The speaker was so utterly lacking in gravitas that none of his pronouncements were taken at all seriously, in spite of their actual importance to the group's day-to-day existence."

[deskmidart]

Gravitas is from the Latin gravitas, "heaviness, seriousness," from gravis, "heavy, serious."


 

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