Another word for heaviness
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Noun
The state or quality of being physically heavy
- Avoirdupois weight.
- Weight or heaviness, especially of a person.
- The quality of being weighty
- A measure of the heaviness of an object:
- The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity.
- A unit measure of gravitational force:
- The quality of being ponderous.
- The property of being massive.
- The property of being hefty.
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Another word for heaviness
Noun
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- Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship or the gondola of a balloon to enhance stability.
- Coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.
- The gravel ingredient of concrete.
- The quality of being dense, especially in the sense of limited mental capacity.
- Something that is carried.
- Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.
- A source of great worry or stress; weight:
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