noun
- The property of being comparatively great in weight.
- usage: "the heaviness of lead"
- synonyms: weightiness
- Persisting sadness.
- usage: "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss"
- An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency.
- usage: "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
- synonyms: ponderousness
- Used of a line or mark.
- synonyms: thickness
- Unwelcome burdensome difficulty.
- synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness
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