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English noun: ponderousness

1. ponderousness (attribute) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency


SamplesA book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness.
His lectures tend to heaviness and repetition.


Synonymsheaviness


Broader (hypernym)uninterestingness

2. ponderousness (attribute) the property of being large in mass


Synonymsheft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity


Broader (hypernym)heaviness, weightiness









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