ponderousness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
    heaviness.
    • a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness
    • his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition
  2. noun the property of being large in mass
    massiveness; heft; heftiness; ponderosity.

WordNet


Pon"der*ous*ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

Webster 1913