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ponderousness
noun as in heaviness
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David Saunderson was the embodiment of ponderousness; he spoke as slowly as he moved his cumbersome limbs.
He moved in the cotillon or waltz with a certain elephantine ponderousness and sagacity.
He believed that ponderousness and extension were qualities indispensable to eloquence.
The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure.
It has not the didactic ponderousness of Odos writing, but its language is clumsy.
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ponderousness, such as: denseness, density, heftiness, mass, massiveness, and ponderosity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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