Solemnity

[sə'lemnɪtɪ] or [sə'lɛmnəti]

Definition

(n.) A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.

(n.) ceremony adapted to impress with awe.

(n.) Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.

(n.) Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.

(n.) Solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.

(n.) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Rite (religious), ceremonial, observance, ceremony.[2]. Awfulness, sacredness.[3]. Seriousness, gravity.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Celebration, rite, office, ceremony, function, pomp, parade, seriousness,pomposity, gravity, sacredness, awe, sanctity, impressiveness, imposingness

ANT:Noncelebration, secularity, simplicity, triviality, gaiety, profanity,desecration, unimpressiveness, meanness, tawdriness, vulgarity, unimposingness

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Examples

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