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Weightiness

noun
1.
The relative importance granted to something.  Synonym: weight.  "The progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
2.
The property of being comparatively great in weight.  Synonym: heaviness.






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"Weightiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... galleys. Then there was a table with a top of solid stone, upon which the formes were bolted up. And there was the ink-slab, another solidity, upon which the ink-rollers were inked. Rollers of various weightiness lay about, and large heavy cans, and many bottles, and metal galleys, and nameless fragments of metal. Everything contributed to the impression of immense ponderosity exceeding the imagination. The fancy of being pinned down by even the lightest ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Weightiness" :   massiveness, weight, lightness, heft, heaviness, ponderosity, heftiness, ponderousness, preponderance, weighty, importance



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