ponderousness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
noun the property of being large in mass

From Middle English ponderusnes, equivalent to ponderous + -ness.

But at nineteen Thomas had attained a height of six feet five, with a proportionate breadth and ponderousness. — In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim, Frances Hodgson Burnett
If the monster catches her, as at times he does, she whips him to a froth, so that those who know Dulness only as a thing of ponderousness, shall fail to recognise him in that light and airy shape. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith
As always when he passed the Parthenon Shoe Shine Parlor, a one-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old California Building resembled a bath-house under a cliff, he commented, “Gosh, ought to get my shoes shined this afternoon. — Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis

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