ponderousness

Definitions of ponderousness
  1. noun
    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
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    type of:
    uninterestingness
    inability to capture or hold one's interest
  2. noun
    the property of being large in mass
    synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity
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    type of:
    heaviness, weightiness
    the property of being comparatively great in weight
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