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ponderousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
| Type of | heaviness, weightiness |
| Derivation | ponderous |
ponderousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heaviness |
| Type of | uninterestingness |
| Derivation | ponderous |
a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness.
Examples of ponderousness
ponderousness
Scott's ponderousness and wordiness were out of step with Modernist sensibilities.
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It's a lovely, melancholy tale of loneliness, but it's undercut by its ponderousness.
From the guardian.co.uk
The lively openness of his drawings is contradicted by the ponderousness of his paintings.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
As the evidence of carousing accumulates, so does the ponderousness.
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The images were unairbrushed and unironic, which freed them of the twin burdens of prettiness and ponderousness.
From the time.com
The breezy, family-friction antics that run throughout don't tally with the script's abrupt U-turns into ponderousness.
From the theater.nytimes.com
The prelude was sheer reverie, a sort of look back across the Romantic divide but utterly without ponderousness.
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Lightness, however, comes less easily to McEwan, whose style depends on deliberateness and a certain ponderousness.
From the guardian.co.uk
The ponderousness of the cow.
From the independent.co.uk
- 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"
- Heft: the property of being large in mass
