Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ponderousness

2 senses of ponderousness

Sense 1
ponderousness, heaviness -- (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")
       => uninterestingness -- (inability to capture or hold one's interest)

Sense 2
heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity -- (the property of being large in mass)
       => heaviness, weightiness -- (the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead")

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