gravitas
Gravitas is seriousness and dignity. You might try to speak with gravitas, but no one will take you seriously if you're wearing clown makeup and giant floppy shoes.
Gravitas is a Latin word that means "weight or heaviness." It came to mean a figurative weight after gravity acquired a primarily scientific meaning. A biography of Abraham Lincoln will inevitably be full of gravitas, and places like libraries, museums, and university buildings seem to have gravitas, or dignity — while grocery stores and gyms usually do not.
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formality in bearing and appearance
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synonyms:
dignity, lordliness
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type of:
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bearing, comportment, mien, presence
a person's manner or conduct
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bearing, comportment, mien, presence
Vocabulary lists containing gravitas
After an ogress is accused of abducting the children of Stone-in-the-Glen, a group of orphans try to save her and convince the townspeople of her good nature.
Biographer Frank Brady chronicles the meteoric rise and astounding fall of chess prodigy Bobby Fischer.
In this magical realist novel, two teens forge a bond after they are both victims of violence.
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