Associations to the word «Ponderousness»

1

Wiktionary

PONDEROUSNESS, noun. The quality of being ponderous.

Dictionary definition

PONDEROUSNESS, 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".
PONDEROUSNESS, noun. The property of being large in mass.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats