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ponderousness
noun
(pon-der-ous-ness)
the property of being large in mass
Synonyms:
heft
,
heftiness
,
massiveness
,
ponderosity
,
ponderousness
noun
(pon-der-ous-ness)
an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
Synonyms:
heaviness
,
Examples:
A book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness.
Words Related to
ponderousness
!
heftiness
,
massiveness
,
heft
,
ponderosity
,
weightiness
,
slightness
,
didacticism
,
triteness
,
heaviness
,
stolidity
,
pompousness
,
lugubriousness
,
mawkishness
,
insipidity
,
pretentiousness
,
grandiloquence
,
insipidness
,
joylessness
,
mushiness
,
blandness
,
shapelessness
,
profundity
,
staginess
,
bathos
,
pensiveness
,
pomposity
,
dullness
,
bombast
,
pedantry
,
unoriginality
,
mournfulness
,
languor
,
pathos
,
impassivity
,
archness
,
melodramatics
,
whimsicality
,
ruefulness
,
ungainliness
,
rotundity
,
superciliousness
,
sentimentalism
,
insubstantiality
,
absurdism
,
misanthropy
,
banality
,
poeticism
,
plaintiveness
,
taciturnity
,
corniness
,
fustiness
,
animality
,
windiness
,
glibness
,
drollness
,
ethereality
,
sunniness
,
woodenness
,
grotesquerie
,
sordidness
,
ephemerality
,
conventionality
,
inconsequentiality
,
punctiliousness
,
abjection
,
overfamiliarity
,
moralizing
,
facetiousness
,
wryness
,
grisliness
,
salaciousness
,
soupcon
,
nabokovian
,
shmaltz
,
tawdriness
,
winsomeness
,
sulkiness
,
indirectness
,
daintiness
,
allusiveness
,
cavils
,
pretension
,
auteurism
,
historicism
,
puerility
,
foppery
,
daftness
,
pithiness
,
everydayness
,
tendentiousness
,
wittedness
,
grotesqueness
,
shavian
,
blitheness
,
breeziness
,
unworldliness
,
luxuriance
,
sheepishness
,
ineffectuality
,
priggishness
,
ponderousness
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