The definition of gravity is the force that causes everything that goes up to fall back down to Earth or is a word used to describe seriousness.
(noun)See gravity in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. gravities
Origin: L gravitas, weight, heaviness < gravis, heavy: see grave
adjective
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Origin: French gravité, heaviness
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Latin gravitās
Origin: , from gravis, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots
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Medicine. the absence of the power to recognize weight through the senses; the absence of barognosis.
barognosis
Medicine. the conscious perception of weight, especially through cutaneous and muscular nerves.
barology
Archaic. a branch of physics that studied weight and its relationship to gravity.
barophobia
an abnormal fear of gravity.
the movement of an organism in response to the force of gravity.
Botany. the response of a plant to the force of gravity. —geotropic, adj.
Hutchinsonianism
the theories of the 18th-century Yorkshireman John Hutchinson, which included a rejection of Newton’s theory of gravitation. See also bible; theology. —Hutchinsonian, adj.
a hypothetical force, opposed to gravity, once believed to be a property inherent in certain bodies or materials.
the production of motion in a body, apparently without the use of material force, a power long claimed by mediums and magicians. Also called teleportation. —telekinetic, adj.
tidology
the science or theory of tides.
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