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Definition of Heaviness

1. Noun. The property of being comparatively great in weight. "The heaviness of lead"

2. Noun. Persisting sadness. "Nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss"

3. Noun. An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency. "His lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"

4. Noun. Used of a line or mark.

5. Noun. Unwelcome burdensome difficulty.

Definition of Heaviness

1. n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Definition of Heaviness

1. Noun. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heaviness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaviness

heavens above heavenward heavenwardly heavenwards heaver heavers heaves heavied heavier heavier-than-air

heavier-than-air craft heavies heaviest heavily heavily traveled heaviness heavinesses heaving heaving line bend heaving line bends

heavings heavisome heavy heavy(a) heavy(p) heavy-armed heavy-coated heavy-duty heavy-duty vehicle heavy-footed

Literary usage of Heaviness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1845)
"Now fur a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold tempt* ... Nearly related to this is ihe heaviness of soul, which is still more common, ..."

2. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine (1893)
"The Heaviness of any substance is the weight of an unit of volume of it in units of ... In British measures heaviness is most conveniently expressed in Ibs. ..."

3. Useful Rules and Tables Relating to Mensuration, Engineering, Structures by William John Macquorn Rankine (1866)
"Heaviness is expressed in units of weight per unit of volume; ... Specific Gravity is the ratio of the heaviness of a given substance to the heaviness of ..."

4. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.—PROVERBS, xiv. 13. PAINS and sorrows occur so frequently in human life, ..."

5. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"Head-ach, binding, heaviness, vertigo, lightness, In body Head me- ... cold sweat, pain in the left side, suffocation, palpitation, heaviness of the heart, ..."

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