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ponderosities

ponderosities is the plural of ponderosity.

Meaning of ponderosity

Noun

ponderosity (countable and uncountable, plural ponderosities)

  1. The quality of requiring extensive thought.
    • The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion to peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if offered to her without the promise that it should be in the upper house1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter IV, in Doctor Thorne
  2. (obsolete) Weight; heaviness.
    • Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about ponderosities

What is ponderosities the plural of?
Ponderosities is the plural of ponderosity.

Words near ponderosities in the dictionary

  1. ponderosa lemon
  2. ponderosa lemons
  3. ponderosa pine
  4. ponderosa pines
  5. ponderosas
  6. ponderosities
  7. ponderosity
  8. ponderous
  9. ponderously
  10. ponderousness
  11. ponderousnesses

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