Usually means: Sincere and intense conviction; seriousness.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word earnestness:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. earnestness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. earnestness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earnestness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. earnestness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Earnestness, earnestness: Wordnik
  6. earnestness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. earnestness: Wiktionary
  8. Earnestness, earnestness: Dictionary.com
  9. earnestness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Earnestness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. earnestness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. earnestness: Rhymezone
  13. Earnestness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. earnestness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. earnestness: Free Dictionary
  16. earnestness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. earnestness: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earnestness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earnestness: Encyclopedia

(Note: See earnest as well.)

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noun:  The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.

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