ponderousness
1. 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 • Syn: heaviness • Derivationally related forms: heavy (for: heaviness), ponderous • Hypernyms: uninterestingness 2. the property of being large in mass • Syn: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity • Derivationally related forms: ponderous (for: ponderosity), ponderous, massive (for: massiveness), hefty (for: heftiness), hefty (for: heft) • Hypernyms: heaviness, weightiness
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