the property of being comparatively great in weight; the heaviness of lead
[ Syn: weightiness ]
persisting sadness; nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss'
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: ponderousness ]
used of a line or mark
[ Syn: thickness ]
unwelcome burdensome difficulty
[ Syn: burdensomeness , onerousness , oppressiveness ]