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heaviness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | denseness, density, mass, thickness, weight |
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| Main Entry: | density |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk, mass |
| Synonyms: | body, closeness, compactness, concretion, consistency, crowdedness, denseness, frequency, heaviness, impenetrability, massiveness, quantity, solidity, substantiality, thickness, tightness |
| Antonyms: | openness, sparsity, thinness |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | brain fag, burnout, debility, dullness, enervation, ennui, exhaustion, faintness, fatigation, feebleness, heaviness, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, overtiredness, weakness, weariness |
| Antonyms: | energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | adiposity, breadth, bulkiness, corpulence, distension, flab, flesh, fleshiness, girth, grossness, heaviness, heftiness, inflation, largeness, obesity, plumpness, portliness, protuberance, pudginess, rotundity, size, stoutness, tumidity, weight |
| Antonyms: | skinniness, slimness, thinness, underweight |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolor, downheartedness, dullness, dumps, foreboding, grief, heaviness, heavy-heartedness, horror, low spirits, malaise, misery, misgiving, mopes, morbidity, mourning, oppression, pensiveness, pessimism, sadness, saturninity, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, contentedness, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, vivaciousness |
| Main Entry: | gravity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | force of attraction |
| Synonyms: | force, heaviness, pressure, weight |
| Notes: | gravitation is the mutual force by which all bodies attract one another and a function of the masses of the bodies, the distance between them, and the gravitational constant; gravity is the force of gravitation on the earth or other celestial object (and also called acceleration or free fall) |
| Antonyms: | weightedness |
| Main Entry: | humidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very damp weather |
| Synonyms: | clamminess, dampness, dankness, dew, dewiness, evaporation, fogginess, heaviness, humectation, humidness, moistness, moisture, mugginess, oppressiveness, sogginess, steam, steaminess, stickiness, sultriness, sweatiness, swelter, thickness, vaporization, wet, wetness |
| Antonyms: | aridity, dryness |
| Main Entry: | laziness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwillingness to work, be active |
| Synonyms: | apathy, dilatoriness, do-nothingness, dormancy, dreaminess, drowsiness, dullness, faineance, faineancy, heaviness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languorousness, laxness, leadenness, leisureliness, lethargy, listlessness, neglectfulness, negligence, otioseness, otiosity, passivity, remissness, slackness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, supineness, tardiness, torpescence, torpidness, weariness |
| Antonyms: | activity, diligence, hard work, industriousness, industry, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical force, weight |
| Synonyms: | burden, compressing, compression, crushing, encumbrance, heaviness, load, mass, shear, squeeze, squeezing, strain, strength, stress, tension, thrust |
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