heavinesses
States of weightiness
Heavinesses is the plural of heaviness, referring to multiple instances or types of weight, burden, or oppressive quality.
The word appears rarely, since heaviness is usually an uncountable noun.
When it does occur, it typically distinguishes different kinds of emotional or atmospheric weight: the various heavinesses of grief, the heavinesses that settled over each room.
Heavy objects for lifting
- burdensWeighty obligations borne
- loadsLarge quantities
- massesBulk or populace
- tonnagesQuantities by ton
densities · poundages · heftiness · bulks · weightiness · solidity · substantialness · dead weights
States of harsh intensity
- gravitiesAttractive forces between masses
- seriousnessEarnest, weighty demeanor
- profunditiesMatters of great depth
- weightinessState of being consequential
significances · momentousness · solemnities · intensities · magnitudes · substantialness · graveness · portentousness
Feelings of profound distress
- griefsProfound sorrows from loss
- depressionsSunken areas or downturns
- melancholiesStates of deep sadness
- sadnessesPlural unhappy emotional states
gloom · burdens · oppressiveness · despair · bleakness · sombreness · weariness · dejections
Abnormal drowsiness and apathy
- torporInactive, sluggish state
- sluggishnessState of slow movement
- drowsinessState of near-sleep
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
weariness · grogginess · sleepiness · exhaustion · languor · lassitude · dullness · listlessness
Crushing, burdensome quality
- mugginessHeavy, damp warmth
- sultrinessOppressive humid heat
- closenessState of proximity
- stuffinessPoor air circulation
humidity · thickness · denseness · stagnation · airlessness · stillness · clamminess · suffocation
weights
Heavy objects for lifting
tonnages · densities · poundages · heftiness · bulks · weightiness · solidity · substantialness · dead weights · gross weights
severities
States of harsh intensity
- gravitiesAttractive forces between masses
- seriousnessEarnest, weighty demeanor
- profunditiesMatters of great depth
weightiness · significances · momentousness · solemnities · intensities · magnitudes · substantialness · graveness · portentousness · criticalness
sorrows
Feelings of profound distress
- griefsProfound sorrows from loss
- depressionsSunken areas or downturns
- melancholiesStates of deep sadness
sadnesses · gloom · burdens · oppressiveness · despair · bleakness · sombreness · weariness · dejections · heartaches
lethargy
Abnormal drowsiness and apathy
- torporInactive, sluggish state
- sluggishnessState of slow movement
- drowsinessState of near-sleep
fatigue · weariness · grogginess · sleepiness · exhaustion · languor · lassitude · dullness · listlessness · somnolence
oppressiveness
Crushing, burdensome quality
- mugginessHeavy, damp warmth
- sultrinessOppressive humid heat
- closenessState of proximity
stuffiness · humidity · thickness · denseness · stagnation · airlessness · stillness · clamminess · suffocation · tension
heavinessesbuoyancies
Upward water forces
airiness · featheriness · insubstantiality · etherealness · delicacies
heavinessesbuoyancies
Upward water forces
carefreeness · airiness · joyousness · breeziness · ease
heavinessesairiness
Lightness and openness
fluffiness · delicacy · etherealness · filminess · wispiness