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Meanings of heaviness in English

Spanish
molestia

Unwelcome burdensome difficulty.

molestia
Catalan
gruix

Used of a line or mark.

gruix

The property of being comparatively great in weight.

An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency.

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Examples for "weightiness"
Examples for "weightiness"
1
Yes, sprightliness is compulsory there; so are weightiness, and fervour, and erudition.
Yet Again
2
I opened my box: then indeed I perceived the secret of its weightiness.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
3
The effect of weightiness is obtained simply by a stupendous disproportion of language to sense.
Yet Again
4
Gappah's tone is far from the weightiness that the phrase "voice of Zimbabwe" suggests.
The Guardian
5
In a recent blog he complained of a "new weightiness".
The Guardian
Usage of heaviness in English
1
Slowly the dulness and heaviness melted from his face; it became radiant.
The Story of an African Farm
2
With a great heaviness of spirit, she stopped and waved to him.
The Mammoth Hunters
3
His eyelids fluttered; he was apparently shaking off the heaviness of slumber.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
4
Yet there was menace in the air, like the heaviness preceding storms.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
5
She changes the subject, tries to lighten the heaviness in the air.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
6
Actually it is weariness to the flesh and heaviness to the spirit.
The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII
7
And my heart was glad in spite of its heaviness and perplexity.
Carette of Sark
8
A heaviness wrapped my heart as we set out for the car.
Bones Are Forever
9
The heaviness of the August air intensified this impression of suspended life.
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
10
Intoxication had cooled and given place to heaviness; lips were breathing feverishly.
Selected Polish Tales
11
It's hard to rise above the heaviness set by such unwarranted indifference.
Keeper: one house, three generations, and a journey into alzheim...
12
He dwelled on another matter, sighing with a heaviness in his breast.
The notorious scoundrel
13
My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
14
Improvements in rectal emptying, pelvic feeling of heaviness, and dyspareunia were achieved.
Pubmed
15
Rawdon and his son went away with the utmost heaviness of heart.
Vanity Fair
16
She could feel the heaviness in the mood of the room lift.
Imperatrix
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Translations for heaviness
Catalan
gruix
Heaviness through the time
Heaviness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common