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Ponderousness

noun
1.
An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency.  Synonym: heaviness.  "His lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
2.
The property of being large in mass.  Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity.






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"Ponderousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... she had rearranged the garments of the dead, she turned and made for the door with a softness of step that strangely contrasted with the ponderousness of her figure, and indicated great muscular strength, opened it with noiseless circumspection to the width of an inch, peeped out from the crack, and seeing the opposite door still shut, stepped out with a swift, noiseless swing of person and door simultaneously, closed the door ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald



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