Synonyms for soberness
Most common
gravity sobriety somberness US graveness sadness temperance abstemiousness
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or quality of being sober.
Forms
- Plural
- sobernesses → sobrieties, gravities, sombernesses, sadnesses…
Example sentences
- gravity Without gravity we would be hurled off into space.
- sobriety Yanni is strongly devoted to his sobriety.
- sadness There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes.
- temperance We ought to look to temperance, the leader of all virtue.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| soberness | steady | |
| gravity | falling | |
| sobriety | rising | |
| somberness | steady | |
| graveness | steady | |
| sadness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- gravity3, sadness2
- 8 letters
- sobriety4
- 9 letters
- graveness
- 10 letters
- temperance3, somberness, sombreness
- 14 letters
- abstemiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gravity3 = 3 syllables).