staidness
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staid
(stād)adj.
1. Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.
2. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe" (Virginia Woolf).
[From obsolete staid, past participle of stay.]
staid′ly adv.
staid′ness n.
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Noun | 1. | staidness - a trait of dignified seriousness serious-mindedness, earnestness, seriousness, sincerity - the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice |
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staidness
nounHigh seriousness of manner or bearing:
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staidness
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