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weightiness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | weight |
| Type of | importance |
| Derivation | weighty |
the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed.
weightiness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heaviness |
| Type of | weight |
| Has types | heftiness, massiveness, heft, ponderousness, preponderance, ponderosity |
| Derivation | weighty |
Examples of weightiness
weightiness
It is so far from the moral weightiness of the Founders that it mocks their memory.
From the sacbee.com
He's a man with a life of service and experience, so you'd want that weightiness in an actor.
From the abcnews.go.com
First that figure stops you with the weightiness of his presence.
From the washingtonpost.com
Despite the weightiness of the issues, it's very much a comic novel, and it delights on multiple levels.
From the stltoday.com
But the weightiness that seemed unsuited to Bach worked surprisingly well in Mendelssohn's Third Sonata.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some of the music was written with cast iron weightiness one moment, and frothy clouds of musical wit the next.
From the sacbee.com
But the loudness sure makes up for the weightiness.
From the independent.co.uk
Nothing can match its extravagant booziness, its weightiness, and its entrance, aflame, to the dining table.
From the independent.co.uk
The weightiness of the paper, and thus of all there was to say, was acknowledged at last in a familiar knowing look, a half-smile.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Weight: the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
- Heaviness: the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead"
