committedness

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committedness - the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose; "a man of energy and commitment"

serious-mindedness, earnestness, seriousness, sincerity - the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice

investment - the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result; "this job calls for the investment of some hard thinking"; "he made an emotional investment in the work"

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27), a fear of sanctions for the nonperformance of one's role can underlie an official's display of committedness.

Responsibility in Law and Morality

Alongside the technical developments of the notion of authenticity in the Carnets, we find the term being used quite loosely to denote adjacent attitudes such as spontaneity, honesty, sincerity, good faith, and committedness. Faced with this conceptual drift, I have chosen to highlight three moments in Sartre's thought that appear to me to typify what is at stake in this notion.

On writing, reflection, and authenticity in Sartre's 'Carnets de la drole de guerre.'

"It is something way beyond 'subject' which determines committedness," he writes.