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Webster 1913 Edition


Ponderosity

Ponˊder-os′i-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Ponderosities
(#)
.
[OF.
ponderosité
.]
The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness;
as, the
ponderosity
of gold
.
Ray.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ponderosity

PONDEROS'ITY

,
Noun.
Weight; gravity; heaviness.

Definition 2024


ponderosity

ponderosity

English

Noun

ponderosity (countable and uncountable, plural ponderosities)

  1. The quality of requiring extensive thought.
    • 1858, Anthony Trollope, “IV”, in Doctor Thorne:
      The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion to peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if it offered her without the promise that it should be in the upper house
  2. (obsolete) Weight; heaviness.
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.