| NOUN | attribute | heaviness, weightiness | the property of being comparatively great in weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| feeling | heaviness | persisting sadness | |
| attribute | heaviness, ponderousness | an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | |
| attribute | heaviness, thickness | used of a line or mark | |
| attribute | heaviness, burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness | unwelcome burdensome difficulty |
| Meaning | The property of being comparatively great in weight. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the heaviness of lead" | |
| Synonym | weightiness | |
| Narrower | heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity | The property of being large in mass |
| preponderance | Exceeding in heaviness | |
| Broader | weight | The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity |
| Opposite | lightness, weightlessness | The property of being comparatively small in weight |
| Spanish | pesadez | |
| Adjectives | heavy | of comparatively great physical weight or density / density |
| heavy | (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | |
| heavy | usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | |
| heavy | full of | |
| Meaning | persisting sadness. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss" | |
| Broader | sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being |
| Spanish | pesadumbre | |
| Adjectives | heavy | marked by great psychological weight |
| Meaning | An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition" | |
| Synonym | ponderousness | |
| Broader | uninterestingness | inability to capture or hold one's interest |
| Adjectives | heavy | lacking lightness or liveliness |
| Meaning | Used of a line or mark. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | thickness | |
| Broader | wideness, broadness | The property of being wide |
| Spanish | grosor | |
| Catalan | gruix | |
| Adjectives | heavy | of relatively large extent and density / density |
| Meaning | unwelcome burdensome difficulty. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness | |
| Broader | difficulty, difficultness | The quality of being difficult |
| Spanish | agobio, molestia, opresión, pesadez | |
| Adjectives | heavy | unusually great in degree or quantity or number |
| heavy | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion | |
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