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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ponderousness, heavinessnoun

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

    "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"

  2. heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderositynoun

    the property of being large in mass

Wiktionary

  1. ponderousnessnoun

    The quality of being ponderous.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ponderousnessnoun

    Heaviness; weight; gravity.

    Etymology: from ponderous.

    The oil and spirit place themselves under or above one another, according as their ponderousness makes them swim or sink. Boyle.

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  1. ponderousness

    Ponderousness refers to the quality or state of being heavy, bulky, slow or dull. It can also refer to something that is laborious, awkward, weighty, or unwieldy. Sometimes it is also used to denote seriousness or solemnity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ponderousnessnoun

    the quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ponderousness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ponderousness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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