What is the meaning of ponderousness?

noun

  • 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"
  • The property of being large in mass.
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