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Ponderousness

noun
1.
An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency.  Synonym: heaviness.  "His lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
2.
The property of being large in mass.  Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity.






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"Ponderousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... waggon to pass along, floored with rank herbage, and trending away, right and left, into obscurity, between the concentric walls of earth. The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure. The way is now up the second of them, which stands steeper and higher than the first. To turn aside, as did Christian's companion, from such a Hill Difficulty, ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy



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