unseriosity

English

Noun

unseriosity (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being unserious.

   Synonym: unseriousness

   • 1994 December 19, Michael Knuemann, “Chung Moo Doe”, in rec.martial-arts‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-05-14:

     So my question is, is the unseriosity of Chung Moo Kwan only a problem of the schools in North America, or is it a problem in general?

   • 2003, M.J. Simpson, chapter 34, in Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 264:

     While Hyperland was in production, Douglas was invited to join a California-based think tank called the Vivarium, set up at Apple in the mid-1980s, where his role was to provide ‘unseriosity’.

   • 2006, Dušica Seferagić, “The Pyramidal Network of Settlements in Croatia”, in Sociologija sela, volume 44, Zagreb: Institute for Social Research of Zagreb, →ISSN, UDK 371.214:373.3(4)(497.5), section “Literature”, page 366:

     Perković, Zorislav (2002): Bijeg u neozbiljnost (Escape to Unseriosity). – Zagreb : Horetzky, (In Croatian)

   • 2014 October 29, Katy Waldman, “There Is an Actual Ivy League Class Called ‘Wasting Time on the Internet,’ and I’d Take It”, in Slate‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-12:

     What a lamentable murk of problematism now befogs this spectacle of unseriosity, the American college.

   • a. 2024, “JSBL (AT)”, in A38‎^[3], Budapest, archived from the original on 2024-05-14:

     Jacobs Salty & Bamboozling Ladder are specialists for a certain serious unseriosity, which lets the bands^[sic] notion of Donald Trump, Micheal^[sic] Jackson and Brigitte Bardot getting drunk together break through sometimes.