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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency;
- Example: "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"
- Example: "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
[syn: ponderousness, heaviness]

2. the property of being large in mass;
[syn: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ponderousness \Pon"der*ous*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ponderousness
    n 1: an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and
         lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it
         sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend
         to heaviness and repetition" [syn: ponderousness,
         heaviness]
    2: the property of being large in mass [syn: heft,
       heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity]