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ponderousness

noun

  1. the state or quality of being ponderous; clumsiness, unwieldiness; slowness, laboriousness. Now especially of speech or writing: dullness, pomposity
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noun

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

  1. The quality of being ponderous.
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