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solemnity

[suh-lem-ni-tee] / səˈlɛm nɪ ti /
NOUN
sobriety
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All this helps relieve the museum’s windowless solemnity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

Unfortunately, the jokes are far outweighed by the solemnity.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025

Not different in how it was done or the solemnity of the moment as MPs fell quiet and listened respectfully.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

In spite of her secret hostility toward the colonel, it was Fernanda who imposed the rigor of that mourning, impressed by the solemnity with which the government exalted the memory of its dead enemy.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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