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Heaviness vs Efficacy - What's the difference?

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Heaviness is a related term of efficacy.


As nouns the difference between heaviness and efficacy

is that heaviness is the state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity while efficacy is (uncountable) ability to produce a desired amount of a desired effect.

heaviness

English

Noun

  • 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 .

    • efficacy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) Ability to produce a desired amount of a desired effect.

    • Synonyms

    * efficacity

    Related terms

    * effect * effective * effectiveness * effectivity * effector * effectual * effectuate * efficacious * efficacity * efficiency * efficient

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