Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being heavy; weight; burden; gravity.
- noun A heavy state of mind; grief; sorrow; despondency; sluggishness; languidness; oppression; tediousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
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- noun The state of being
heavy ;weight ,weightiness , force of impact or gravity. - noun obsolete
Oppression ;dejectedness ,sadness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun persisting sadness
- noun an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
- noun the property of being comparatively great in weight
- noun unwelcome burdensome difficulty
- noun used of a line or mark
Etymologies
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Examples
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Making a death metal album sound nice and clean without losing the heaviness is a subtle art and he's consistently nailed it.
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Making a death metal album sound nice and clean without losing the heaviness is a subtle art and he's consistently nailed it.
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However, this heaviness is also a result of the author's ardent and instant imagination, forming a scene and a dialogue of each incident in the narrative without taking the necessary backward look at the general perspective.
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Indeed, I was in rather a low way that day; which was due in part to my not being able, for all my thinking, to see any sort of a clear course before me; and in part to the fact that the weather was thickening and that my spirits were dulled a good deal by what we call the heaviness of the air.
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Great heaviness is often necessary to a Christian's good: If need be, you are in heaviness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Jean Pierre: The things that happen in the book are heavy, but I do think the heaviness is somewhat diluted by the fact that Celie writes with such sad acceptance instead of anger.
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There must be something in the air or the moon because this heaviness is upon me too.
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There are a certain number of passages where Amiel ceases to be the writer, and becomes the technical philosopher; there are others, though not many, into which a certain German heaviness and diffuseness has crept, dulling the edge of the sentences, and retarding the development of the thought.
Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885
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I wrote this same unto you -- namely, that I would not come to you then (2Co 2: 1), as, if I were to come then, it would have to be "in heaviness" (causing sorrow both to him and them, owing to their impenitent state).
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Compare "now for a season ... in heaviness" (1Pe 1: 6).
hernesheir commented on the word heaviness
A word of ponderous portent.
December 29, 2011