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ponderousness

DEFINITIONS OF: ponderousness

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n an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency

“a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness
Synonyms:
heaviness
Type of:
uninterestingness
inability to capture or hold one's interest

n the property of being large in mass

Synonyms:
heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity
Type of:
heaviness, weightiness
the property of being comparatively great in weight
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