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Ponderousness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PON'DEROUSNESS, n. Weight; heaviness; gravity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: ponderousness, heaviness]
2: the property of being large in mass [syn: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity]

Merriam Webster's

noun see ponderous

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ponderousness Pon"der*ous*ness, n. The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

Moby Thesaurus

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