ciddiyet

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جدیت (ciddiyet, “seriousness, severity, solemnity”), from Arabic جِدِّيَّة (jiddiyya), from جِدِّيّ (jiddiyy, “serious, grave, earnest”), from جَدَّ (jadda, “to be new, to be serious or earnest”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒid.diˈjet/
• Hyphenation: cid‧di‧yet

ciddiyet (definite accusative ciddiyeti, plural ciddiyetler)

1. seriousness, solemnity, earnestness
2. (figuratively) (of an event, situation etc.) severity, gravity

• “ciddiyet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ciddiyet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 812