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noun
Dull and pompous gravity.
synonym: stuffiness.
is a specific kind of: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness.
derivation: stodgy, stuffy | fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy.
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