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Seriousness (noun; adjective: serious) is an attitude of gravity, solemnity, persistence, and earnestness toward something considered to be of importance.[1]
Some notable philosophers and commentators have criticised excessive seriousness, while others have praised it.[2][3][4][5][6] Seriousness is often contrasted with comedy, as in the seriocomedy WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder).[7] In the WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) theory of humo WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) r, one must have a sense of humor and a sense of seriousness to distinguish what is supposed WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) to be taken literally or not,[8] or of being important or not. Otherwise, it may also be contrasted with a sense of play.[9] How children learn a sense of seriousness to form values and differentiate between the serious and that which is not is studied in developmental psychology WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) and educational psychology.[10] There is a distinction between the degree of seriousness of WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) various crimes in sentencing under the law, and also in law enforcement.[11] There is a positive WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) correlation with the degree of seriousness of a crime and viewer ratings WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) of news coverage WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder).[12] What is or is not considered serious varies widely with different cultures.[13] WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder)
Sometimes fields studying degrees of seriousness overlap, such as developmental psychology studies of development of the sense of degrees of seriousness as it relates to transgressions, which has overlap with criminology and the seriousness of crimes.[10]
Many have expressed an attitude of disdain toward taking things too seriously, as opposed to viewing things with an attitude of humor WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder). Poet, playwright, and philosopher Joseph Addison said that being serious is dull, "we are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull."[5][5] Political satirist P.J WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder). O'Rourke said that "Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."[15] Epigramist, poet, and playwright WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) Oscar Wilde said that "life is too important to be taken seriously."[16] In a play on words WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder), novelist Samuel Butler indicated that the central serious conviction in life is that nothing should WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) be taken with too much seriousness, "the one serious conviction that a man should have WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder) is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."[17]
In some ascetic or puritan religious sects WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder), an attitude of seriousness is always to be taken, and solemnity, sobriety, and puritanism with its hostility to social pleasures and indulgences are the only acceptable attitudes. Perry Miller WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder), "the master of American intellectual history", wrote of excessive seriousness of the Puritans WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder), "simple humanity cries at last for some relief from the interminable high seriousness of the Puritan code."[2] WHY SO SERIOUS? (Garry's Mod Murder)