Solemnity

English

Noun

Solemnity (plural solemnities)

1. The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.
2. An instance or example of solemn behavior.

Adjectives for Solemnity

severer majestic; religious; rare; mysterious; quaint; guarded; significant; pretentious; accustomed; symmetrical; grievous; unutterable; impressive; formal; professional; inaccessible; profound; dismal; preternatural; sweet; shallow; mournful; livid; royal.

Verbs for Solemnity

alleviate—; dedicate in—; ease—; enthrone in—; impress—; maintain—; mar—; perform with—; preserve—; relax—; ruffle—; sustain—; temper—; —abashes; —awes; — chastens; —dampens; —dazzles; —depress¬es; —deters; —glooms; —inspires; —oppresses; —pervades; —sobers; —subdues.

Thesaurus

aridity, augustness, baccalaureate service, barrenness, bleakness, bloodlessness, buckram, celebration, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness, circumstance, colorlessness, commencement, consequence, convocation, courtliness, darkness, deadness, dignifiedness, dignity, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, duty, earnestness, effeteness, elevation, emptiness, empty formality, etiolation, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, flatness, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formalization, formula, formulary, function, gloom, gloominess, graduation, graduation exercises, grandeur, gravity, grimness, heaviness, heraldry, hollowness, holy rite, impersonality, importance, impressiveness, inanity, inaugural, inauguration, inexcitability, initiation, insipidity, insipidness, institution, jejunity, kingliness, leadenness, lifelessness, liturgy, loftiness, lordliness, lowness of spirit, majesty, mode of worship, moderation, momentousness, mummery, mystery, no joke, no laughing matter, nobility, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, paleness, pallor, performance, pointlessness, pokiness, pomp, pomposity, ponderousness, practice, prescribed form, pride, pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness, proud bearing, regality, religious ceremony, reserve, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, sacrament, sacramental, sedateness, seriousness, service, slowness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnization, solemnness, somberness, spiritlessness, staidness, starchiness, state, stateliness, sterility, stiffness, stiltedness, stodginess, stuffiness, stylization, sublimity, superficiality, taciturnity, tastelessness, tediousness, temperance, uninterestingness, unliveliness, vapidity, vapidness, venerability, wearifulness, wearisomeness, weight, weightiness, woodenness, worthiness

Etymology

Middle English solemnity (“observance of formality and ceremony”), frequently in the phrases in solemnity, with solemnity, which from Old French solemnite, from Latin sollemnitās, from sollemnis. (Compare solemn.)

Translations

• Spanish: solemnidad (es) f.

Anagrams

• mylonites