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HEAVINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unwelcome burdensome difficulty
Synonyms:
burdensomeness; heaviness; onerousness; oppressiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heaviness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Derivation:
heavy (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)
heavy (unusually great in degree or quantity or number)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being comparatively great in weight
Example:
the heaviness of lead
Synonyms:
heaviness; weightiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heaviness" is a kind of...):
weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heaviness"):
heft; heftiness; massiveness; ponderosity; ponderousness (the property of being large in mass)
preponderance (exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight)
Antonym:
lightness (the property of being comparatively small in weight)
Derivation:
heavy (usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it)
heavy (full of; bearing great weight)
heavy (of comparatively great physical weight or density)
heavy ((physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used of a line or mark
Synonyms:
heaviness; thickness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heaviness" is a kind of...):
broadness; wideness (the property of being wide; having great width)
Derivation:
heavy (of relatively large extent and density)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
Example:
his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition
Synonyms:
heaviness; ponderousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heaviness" is a kind of...):
uninterestingness (inability to capture or hold one's interest)
Derivation:
heavy (lacking lightness or liveliness)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Persisting sadness
Example:
nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("heaviness" is a kind of...):
sadness; unhappiness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)
Derivation:
heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)
