WEIGHTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weightiness mean? 

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

1. the relative importance granted to something

2. the property of being comparatively great in weight

  Familiarity information: WEIGHTINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEIGHTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relative importance granted to something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

weight; weightiness

Context example:

the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed

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

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

Derivation:

weighty (of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought)

weighty (powerfully persuasive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being comparatively great in weight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heaviness; weightiness

Context example:

the heaviness of lead

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

weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weightiness"):

heft; heftiness; massiveness; ponderosity; ponderousness (the property of being large in mass)

preponderance (exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight)

Derivation:

weighty (excessively fat)

weighty (having relatively great weight; heavy)