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.

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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.

heaviness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural heavinesses)

The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
(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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