Gravitas

Taken from WikipediA:
Gravitas (from Latin) is a quality of substance or depth of personality.
Gravitas (specifically dignity, seriousness, and duty) is one of the several virtues that ancient Roman society expected men to possess, along with pietas, dignitas, and iustitia.

Is it a coincidence that the media has dropped the use of the word “gravitas”?
For the longest while, it seemed like every time I turned around, someone on TV, on the radio or in the paper was using the word “gravitas”. The media was expanding their vocabulary. What a wonderful thing. I had learned a new word! It became almost competitive to see who could use the word the most times in one sentence.

How many times have you heard the word used since Obama came on the scene? In light of the preferential treatment he has been given, could it be the fact that he has no substance that has led to the word never to be uttered again?

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say that the media joined together and agreed that gravitas was not important any more. Since it cannot be used in a positive way to describe Barry, the word no longer exists.

Bring back garvitas. I miss it!