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# earnestness

«earnestness» in Mova's school dictionary: **being serious and sincere, meaning what you say and do** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Earnestness is being serious and sincere, meaning what you say and do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnestness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a speaker who talks with deep feeling; in lessons it shows you are keen and sincere

### examples

- He spoke with great earnestness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnestness/#x1)
- Her earnestness made everyone listen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnestness/#x2)
- She worked with such earnestness that she finished first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnestness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «earnestness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnestness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.