Definitions
formality in bearing and appearance
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin gravitās (“weight, heaviness”). Doublet of gravity.
Used in a sentence
“Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere.”
“It's a light rail system, after all, although it does operate at the heavier end of the light rail spectrum. Yet it doesn't have the history or the gravitas that (say) London Underground has.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Serious dignity”8 letters
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