Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being heavy; weight; burden; gravity.
- n. A heavy state of mind; grief; sorrow; despondency; sluggishness; languidness; oppression; tediousness.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
- n. obsolete Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. persisting sadness
- n. an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
- n. the property of being comparatively great in weight
- n. unwelcome burdensome difficulty
- n. used of a line or mark
Etymologies
- From heavy + -ness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Making a death metal album sound nice and clean without losing the heaviness is a subtle art and he's consistently nailed it.”
“However, this heaviness is also a result of the author's ardent and instant imagination, forming a scene and a dialogue of each incident in the narrative without taking the necessary backward look at the general perspective.”
“Indeed, I was in rather a low way that day; which was due in part to my not being able, for all my thinking, to see any sort of a clear course before me; and in part to the fact that the weather was thickening and that my spirits were dulled a good deal by what we call the heaviness of the air.”
“Great heaviness is often necessary to a Christian's good: If need be, you are in heaviness.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“Jean Pierre: The things that happen in the book are heavy, but I do think the heaviness is somewhat diluted by the fact that Celie writes with such sad acceptance instead of anger.”
“There must be something in the air or the moon because this heaviness is upon me too.”
“There are a certain number of passages where Amiel ceases to be the writer, and becomes the technical philosopher; there are others, though not many, into which a certain German heaviness and diffuseness has crept, dulling the edge of the sentences, and retarding the development of the thought.”
“I wrote this same unto you -- namely, that I would not come to you then (2Co 2: 1), as, if I were to come then, it would have to be "in heaviness" (causing sorrow both to him and them, owing to their impenitent state).”
“Compare "now for a season ... in heaviness" (1Pe 1: 6).”
“The "in heaviness" implies mutual pain; they grieving him, and he them.”
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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March2022AV
drop in, drop by, settle, screwing up, worn, wear, bought, devastating, heaviness, entrepreneurial, hitchhiking, falling out and 4 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A word of ponderous portent. Dec 29, 2011