Heaviness
noun
The quality of being heavy.
He struggled with the heaviness of the luggage.
Often appears as...
- feel the heaviness
- experiencing the heaviness
noun
A serious or sad quality.
There was a heaviness in the air after the news of the accident.
Often appears as...
- heaviness in the air
- heaviness of the situation
noun
A condition of being difficult to bear.
The heaviness of her fatigue was nearly unbearable.
Often appears as...
- heaviness of fatigue
- heaviness of guilt
noun
Something that presses down on the mind or spirit.
The heaviness of the situation weighed on her.
Often appears as...
- heaviness of the mind
- heaviness of spirit
noun
The quality of being heavy.
He struggled with the heaviness of the luggage.
Often appears as...
- feel the heaviness
- experiencing the heaviness
noun
A serious or sad quality.
There was a heaviness in the air after the news of the accident.
Often appears as...
- heaviness in the air
- heaviness of the situation
noun
A condition of being difficult to bear.
The heaviness of her fatigue was nearly unbearable.
Often appears as...
- heaviness of fatigue
- heaviness of guilt
noun
Something that presses down on the mind or spirit.
The heaviness of the situation weighed on her.
Often appears as...
- heaviness of the mind
- heaviness of spirit
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Use 'heaviness' when describing the weight you feel from physical items.
The heaviness of his backpack made walking difficult.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphoric Usage
Metaphorically, it can signify difficulty or effort required in a task.
The heaviness of the project's responsibility was challenging.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Use 'heaviness' when describing the weight you feel from physical items.
The heaviness of his backpack made walking difficult.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphoric Usage
Metaphorically, it can signify difficulty or effort required in a task.
The heaviness of the project's responsibility was challenging.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Objects
Use 'heaviness' when describing the weight you feel from physical items.
The heaviness of his backpack made walking difficult.
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphoric Usage
Metaphorically, it can signify difficulty or effort required in a task.
The heaviness of the project's responsibility was challenging.
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Taking Landscape Photos...
that journey that drive that we get to share together that's inherently inspiring that's usually where i find photographic opportunities i do need a creative outlet and i think that it comes from the heaviness of medicine dealing with life and death motivates me to get out there
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Tim Urban: Inside the...
and the heaviness of these emails. These people were writing with intense frustration about what procrastination had done to their lives, about what this Monkey had done to them. And I thought about this, and I said,
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Taking Landscape Photos...
that journey that drive that we get to share together that's inherently inspiring that's usually where i find photographic opportunities i do need a creative outlet and i think that it comes from the heaviness of medicine dealing with life and death motivates me to get out there
Video examples
Tim Urban: Inside the...
and the heaviness of these emails. These people were writing with intense frustration about what procrastination had done to their lives, about what this Monkey had done to them. And I thought about this, and I said,
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Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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Donald Hall
American Poet
It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.
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Ariel Pink
American Musician
I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
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Karen Salmansohn
American Author
If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
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Daniel Boulud
French Chef
It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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Debbie Ford
American Author
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
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Hedi Slimane
French Designer
Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.
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Kelli O'Hara
American Actress
South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
French Mathematician
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Quote examples
Donald Hall
American Poet
It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.
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Ariel Pink
American Musician
I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
Quote examples
Karen Salmansohn
American Author
If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
Quote examples
Joyce Meyer
American Author
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
Quote examples
Daniel Boulud
French Chef
It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
Quote examples
Debbie Ford
American Author
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
Quote examples
Hedi Slimane
French Designer
Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.
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Kelli O'Hara
American Actress
South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.
Quote examples
Benoit Mandelbrot
French Mathematician
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
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