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Ponderousness Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Ponderousness has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency

"a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"

"his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"

2

the property of being large in mass

3

The quality of being ponderous.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
uninterestingness heaviness
Rhyming Words
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