Ponderousness Definition

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

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