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Weightiness

noun
1.
The relative importance granted to something.  Synonym: weight.  "The progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
2.
The property of being comparatively great in weight.  Synonym: heaviness.





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"Weightiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... literary gifts, like his oratory, lack the merit of permanence, and his sermons, more conspicuous for eloquence than for weightiness of matter, although extremely popular at the time, have long ceased to be read. His prominence among the Queen Anne wits,—and he was admired by them all,—is a sufficient reason for saying a few words about ...
— The Age of Pope - (1700-1744) • John Dennis


Words linked to "Weightiness" :   heft, importance, lightness, ponderousness, massiveness, heftiness, weighty, heaviness, ponderosity, preponderance


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