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Webster 1913 Edition


Heaviness

Heav′i-ness

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Noun.
The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Heaviness

HEAV'INESS

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Noun.
hev'iness. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body.
1.
Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Prov.12.
Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations. 1 Pet.1.
2.
Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude.
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
3.
Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.
4.
That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught.
5.
Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil.
6.
Thickness; moistness; as of air.

Definition 2024


heaviness

heaviness

English

Noun

heaviness (countable and uncountable, plural heavinesses)

  1. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
  2. (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse.

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