PONDEROUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ponderousness mean? 

• PONDEROUSNESS (noun)
  The noun PONDEROUSNESS has 2 senses:

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

2. the property of being large in mass

  Familiarity information: PONDEROUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PONDEROUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heaviness; ponderousness

Context example:

his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition

Hypernyms ("ponderousness" is a kind of...):

uninterestingness (inability to capture or hold one's interest)

Derivation:

ponderous (labored and dull)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being large in mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heft; heftiness; massiveness; ponderosity; ponderousness

Hypernyms ("ponderousness" is a kind of...):

heaviness; weightiness (the property of being comparatively great in weight)

Derivation:

ponderous (having great mass and weight and unwieldiness)

ponderous (slow and laborious because of weight)