Noun: ponderousness pón-du-rus-nus
- An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
"a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness";
- heaviness
- The property of being large in mass
"The ponderousness of the elephant was evident as it lumbered along";
- heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity
Type of: heaviness, uninterestingness, weightiness