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Noun: stodginess  stó-jee-nus
  1. Dull and pompous gravity
    "The professor's stodginess made his lectures unbearable";
    - stuffiness

Type of: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness [US], sombreness [Brit, Cdn]