earnestness - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | earnestness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination; seriousness |
| Synonyms: | absorption, ardor, concentration, decision, deliberation, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, enthusiasm, fervor, firmness, gravity, intensity, keenness, passion, perseverance, persistence, resolution, resolve, sincerity, sobriety, solemnity, stress, tenacity, urgency, vehemence, warmth, zeal, attentiveness, engrossment, intentness, purposefulness, serious-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | flippancy, insincerity, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | ardor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fire, gusto, heat, intensity, jazz*, keenness, oomph*, passion, pep talk*, spirit, turn on*, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness*, zeal, zest, zing, fierceness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, frigidity, indifference, coldness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | constancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixedness |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, certainty, decision, determination, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, earnestness, endurance, faith, fealty, fidelity, firmness, honesty, honor, integrity, love, loyalty, permanence, perseverance, principle, regularity, resolution, stability, surety, tenacity, truthfulness, uniformity, zeal, abidingness, dependability, devotedness, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, trustiness, trustworthiness, unchangeableness, unfailingness |
| Antonyms: | change, fluctuation, instability, irregularity, changeableness, inconstancy, unsteadiness |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
| Synonyms: | amenity, approbation, approval, earnestness, favor, geniality, reciprocity, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, enjoyableness, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, responsiveness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, aloofness, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | devotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commitment; loyalty |
| Synonyms: | adherence, adoration, affection, allegiance, ardor, attachment, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, earnestness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, fealty, fervor, fidelity, fondness, intensity, love, observance, passion, piety, reverence, sanctity, service, sincerity, spirituality, worship, zeal, devotedness, devotement, devoutness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, carelessness, indifference, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, application, attention, care, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, industry, intensity, intent, keenness, quickness, vigor, assiduity, assiduousness, attentiveness, briskness, carefulness, heedfulness, intentness, laboriousness, pertinacity, sedulousness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | eagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, anxiousness |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ambition, anticipation, ardor, avidity, earnestness, excitement, fervor, gusto, hunger, impatience, keenness, longing, promptness, quickness, solicitude, thirst, vehemence, voracity, yearning, zeal, zest, zing*, greediness, heartiness, impetuosity, intentness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enthusiasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keen interest, excitement |
| Synonyms: | élan, activity, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, intensity, interest, joy, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph*, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat*, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zest, ardency, fieriness, impetuosity, joyfulness, zealousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness, aloofness, coldness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fervor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement, enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, eagerness, earnestness, fire*, heat*, hurrah, intensity, jazz*, love, oomph*, passion, pep talk*, piety, seriousness, sincerity, solemnity, vehemence, warmth, weakness, zeal, ardency, devoutness, fervency, heartiness, piousness, religiousness, wholeheartedness, zealousness |
| Notes: | the intensity of heat or feeling can be described as fervency (from Latin fervere 'boil'); an instance of this heat or feeling is fervor |
| Antonyms: | apathy, coolness, discouragement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion, force |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferocity, fervor, fire, force, fury, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, strain, strength, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, deepness, ferociousness, fervency, fierceness, forcefulness, high pitch, intenseness, sharpness, tenseness, weightiness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, dullness, laziness, lethargy, moderation, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, integrity, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, sincerity, submission, support, tie, troth, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal, devotedness, incorruptibility, inviolability, scrupulousness, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | disloyalty, unfaithfulness, undependability |
| Main Entry: | resolve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision, determination |
| Synonyms: | boldness, conclusion, courage, design, earnestness, firmness, intention, objective, project, purpose, resolution, undertaking, will, willpower, decidedness, fixed purpose, purposefulness, purposiveness, resoluteness, steadfastness |
| Antonyms: | indecision, question, wavering |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candor, earnestness, frankness, good faith, goodwill, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, probity, reliability, seriousness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, bona fides, genuineness, guilelessness, openness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | zeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion, diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise, fanaticism, fervor, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination, initiative, intensity, keenness, mania, passion, perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, yen, zest, fierceness, intentness, stick-to-itiveness, what-it-takes |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, lethargy |
| Main Entry: | solemnity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sobriety |
| Synonyms: | ceremony, earnestness, gravity, seriousness, impressiveness, impressiveness |
| Main Entry: | ambition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire for success |
| Synonyms: | appetite, ardor, aspiration, avidity, craving, desire, drive, eagerness, earnestness, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, hankering*, hope, hunger, initiative, itch*, keenness, longing, love, lust, moxie*, passion, pretension, push, right stuff*, spirit, striving, thirst, vigor, yearning, zeal, emulation, fire in belly, get up and go |
| Antonyms: | apathy, contentment, diffidence, humility, indifference, laziness, satisfaction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination, strong will |
| Synonyms: | aim, boldness, constancy, courage, decision, declaration, dedication, doggedness, earnestness, energy, firmness, fortitude, guts*, heart*, intent, intention, judgment, mettle, moxie*, obstinacy, perseverance, pluck, purpose, resolve, settlement, sincerity, spirit, spunk, staying power, stubbornness, tenacity, verdict, willpower, dauntlessness, decidedness, fixed purpose, immovability, purposefulness, purposiveness, relentlessness, resoluteness, staunchness, steadfastness |
| Antonyms: | compliance, indecision, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seriousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humorlessness |
| Synonyms: | calmness, coolness, earnest, earnestness, gravity, sincerity, sobriety, solemnity, thoughtfulness, intentness, sedateness, serious-mindedness, sober-mindedness, staidness, sternness |
| Antonyms: | humor, lightness, funniness |
| Main Entry: | spirit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | soul, attitude |
| Synonyms: | air, animation, ardor, backbone*, boldness, breath, character, complexion, courage, disposition, earnestness, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, essence, fire, force, frame of mind, grit*, guts*, heart, humor, jazz*, life, life force, liveliness, mettle, mood, morale, motivation, nerve, oomph*, outlook, psyche, quality, resolution, resolve, sparkle, spunk*, substance, temper, temperament, tenor, vigor, vitality, warmth, will, willpower, zest, dauntlessness, gameness, stoutheartedness, vital spark |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty sentence; assurance |
| Synonyms: | certainty, condemnation, confidence, earnestness, fall, fervor, firmness, rap, reliance, surety, assuredness, certitude, condemning, determining guilt, sureness, unfavorable verdict |
| Antonyms: | overturning |
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