Definition of "serious-mindedness" []

• The trait of being serious (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Okay, maybe we have to be touching and be in the right frame of serious-mindedness."
• "His drily funny commentary can't hide a serious-mindedness, and he encourages, rather than undercuts, the reverence in which his once-anarchic comedies are now held."
• "Its impeccable serious-mindedness is nothing to scoff at; what some saw as ponderous now seems merely prescient."