noun
1. an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
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a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness
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his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition
• Syn: ↑heaviness
• Hypernyms: ↑uninterestingness
2. the property of being large in mass
• Syn: ↑heft, ↑heftiness, ↑massiveness, ↑ponderosity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑ponderous (for: ↑ponderosity), ↑ponderous, ↑massive (for: ↑massiveness), ↑hefty (for: ↑heftiness), ↑hefty (for: ↑heft)
• Hypernyms: ↑heaviness, ↑weightiness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.