self-seriousness
Inability to laugh
Self-seriousness is an excessive regard for one's own importance, opinions, or endeavors—an inability to laugh at oneself or treat one's work lightly.
The self-serious person lacks ironic distance from their own pursuits: His self-seriousness made him impossible to tease.
The quality often invites mockery precisely because it resists it.
Exaggerated sense of importance
- gravitasDignified, weighty manner
- solemnitySerious, dignified quality
- stuffinessPoor air circulation
- humorlessnessLack of comedic sense
earnestness · grandiosity · affectation · airs · stiffness · formality · priggishness · preciousness
pomposity
Exaggerated sense of importance
- gravitasDignified, weighty manner
- solemnitySerious, dignified quality
- stuffinessPoor air circulation
humorlessness · earnestness · grandiosity · affectation · airs · stiffness · formality · priggishness · preciousness · sanctimony
narcissism
Excessive admiration of oneself
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
hubris · inflated · overestimation · smugness · superiority · preening · vainglory · egotism
dour
Sternly gloomy
stiff · uptight · rigid · joyless · mirthless · unsmiling · grim · stoic · deadpan · sourpuss
self-seriousnessself-deprecation
Belittling oneself deliberately
self-mockery · self-effacement · lightheartedness · playfulness · humility
self-seriousnessapproachability
Quality of seeming welcoming
warmth · casualness · folksiness · informality · affability
self-seriousnesswhimsy
Playful, capricious quality
playfulness · irreverence · absurdism · camp · levity
self, serious, seriously, seriousness, selves, selfhood, selfless, selflessness, selfish