Hyphenation of seriousness

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word seriousness? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

se-ri-ous-ness

Definitions of seriousness:

1.	An earnest and sincere feeling
2.	The quality of arousing fear or distress He learned the seriousness of his illness
3.	The trait of being serious A lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness- Robert Rice

Synonyms of seriousness:

noun	earnestness, sincerity, gravity, solemnity
noun	distressfulness, badness, severity
noun	earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity, trait

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.