weightiness
Example Sentences
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Compter suggests quantifiable weight, and importer can also suggest metaphorical weightiness, as in “a matter of import.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
And he advised jurors to focus on the weightiness of their task.
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023
It’s light, as I said, for all the weightiness of its subject — but entertaining, nonetheless.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022
At this tender age the little girl who already grasped the weightiness of her grandfather's national role as "Grandpa England", was clearly developing some inkling of her own as well...
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2022
But the woman was his daughter, and she had drawn to herself all his conviction, all his weightiness.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
