self-seriousness
nounEtymology From self- + seriousness or self-serious + -ness.
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The state of being self-serious.
- The types that started using “-maxxing” in earnest often did so with such hectoring self-seriousness that it was impossible not to parody.2025 October 11, Nitsuh Abebe, “The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2025: