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Ponderousness

noun

An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency. Synonym: heaviness. "His lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"

The property of being large in mass. Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity.

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"Ponderousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Peter," said he with judicial ponderousness, "why you shouldn't reach a ripe old age. You're quite likely to outlive me and a host of younger men. Only, take better care of yourself. And,—no matter how many probable years of life a man has before him, it does him no harm to set his house in order. ...

— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco

... Hiram, pacing the walk along the end of the garden with a ponderousness in the movements of his big form that bespoke age and effort. It irritated Mrs. Whitney to look at him, as it had irritated her to look at Ellen; very painful were the reminders of the ravages of time from these people of about her own age, these whom ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

... her talk. In Washington, my rank had never entitled me to a seat at her side at dinner; and many was the time I had chaffed Courtney, or some other unfortunate, who had been so stranded beside Her Ponderousness. To-night, however, my turn was come, and Courtney was getting ...

— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott

Words linked to "Ponderousness" : heaviness, weightiness, heft, uninterestingness, ponderosity, massiveness, ponderous