heaviness

Nouns

  • (n) the property of being comparatively great in weight
    • the heaviness of lead
    weightiness,
  • (n) persisting sadness
    • nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss
  • (n) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
    • a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness
    • his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition
    ponderousness,
  • (n) used of a line or mark thickness,
  • (n) unwelcome burdensome difficulty burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness,

Synonyms

weightiness ponderousness thickness burdensomeness onerousness oppressiveness

Antonyms

weightlessness lightness

Words of close approximity