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Ponderousness vs Heaviness - What's the difference?

ponderousness | heaviness |

As nouns the difference between ponderousness and heaviness

is that ponderousness is the quality of being ponderous while heaviness is the state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.

ponderousness

English

Noun

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  • The quality of being ponderous.

    • 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 .