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vakavuus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • earnest adj Serious and sincere in intention or feeling.
  • graveness noun The state of being grave; gravity
  • gravity noun The force that pulls objects toward the center of the earth, or more generally, that pulls masses toward each other.
  • seriousness noun The quality of being serious, grave, or important.
  • severity noun The quality of being harsh, strict, or extreme.

Senses

vakavuus is used for these senses in English:

  • graveness The state of being grave; gravity
  • gravity (physics) A law or laws of gravitation: any theory which attempts to account for the phenomena of weight and/or the mutual attraction of massive objects (Aristotelian gravity, Newtonian gravity).
  • seriousness The state or quality of being serious.
  • severity The state of being severe.

earnest — full definition

  1. adj Serious and sincere in intention or feeling.
  2. noun A sum of money paid in advance as a pledge or guarantee that a larger deal will go ahead.

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