heaviness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: heaviness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for heaviness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heaviness n the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead" Synonym(s): heaviness, weightiness Antonym(s): lightness, weightlessness persisting sadness; "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss" 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" Synonym(s): ponderousness, heaviness used of a line or mark Synonym(s): thickness, heaviness unwelcome burdensome difficulty Synonym(s): burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heaviness \Heav"i*ness\, n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.