heaviness
heaviness
Definition
heavi·ness (hev′ē nis)
noun
a heavy quality or state
heaviness
Synonyms
heaviness
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- heart: Monday Unusually, I feel a slight heaviness of heart at going back in to work today.
- rainfall: I didn't count on the heaviness of the rainfall in what should, by now, be the dry season.
Converse of object
- crush: Bands like Slayer and Metallica would take the crushing heaviness of doom metal and up the velocity of the music.
- feel: Some people feel great heaviness coming over their bodies, others feel very light or numb.
- have: Even then they had the heaviness of fellow Brum band Black Sabbath.
- avoid: The Gen-2 is neat and attractive, avoiding that heaviness of appearance that afflicts so many modern cars.
- reduce: Weight reduction will improve cycle control and reduce the heaviness of menstrual flow.
- experience: During treatment, patients commonly experience a heaviness in the limbs or a pleasant feeling of relaxation.
Adjective modifier
- great: Some people feel great heaviness coming over their bodies, others feel very light or numb.
- extreme: And for all its extreme heaviness, disjointedness and chaos, it's executed with such a perfect sense of synchronization it's astonishing.
- very: The very heaviness of his soul caused him to sleep profoundly.
Preposition: in
- scrotum: Other warning signs include a general sensation of heaviness in the scrotum, or a dull ache in the lower abdomen or groin.
- limb: During treatment, patients commonly experience a heaviness in the limbs or a pleasant feeling of relaxation.
- head: A severe withdrawal reaction followed ( vertigo, dizziness, ataxia, nausea, diplopia, heaviness in head and feelings of dissociation ).
- body: Physical perceptions may gain more importance, and the subject may experience heightened tingling feelings or heaviness in the lower body.
heaviness Quotes
Thy rebukehath brokenmy heart;Iam full of heaviness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.
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