Associations to the word «Heaviness»

Wiktionary

HEAVINESS, noun. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
HEAVINESS, noun. (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.

Dictionary definition

HEAVINESS, noun. The property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead".
HEAVINESS, noun. Persisting sadness; "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss".
HEAVINESS, noun. 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".
HEAVINESS, noun. Used of a line or mark.
HEAVINESS, noun. Unwelcome burdensome difficulty.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley