heftiness

Quality of heaviness

Heftiness is the quality of being heavy or substantial.

It can describe physical weight: the heftiness of the package surprised the mail carrier.

The word extends to anything with considerable size, force, or impact: the heftiness of the fine, the heftiness of his argument.

Heftiness often carries positive connotations of solidity and importance rather than mere bulk.

bulk

mass

Quantity of matter

  • volumeAmount of space filled
  • sizePhysical extent or dimensions
  • largenessConsiderable size or extent

substantiality · magnitude · girth · thickness · bulkiness · solidity · density · amplitude · expansiveness · fullness

weight

heaviness

State of being weighty

tonnage · load · gravity · mass · avoirdupois · weightiness · density · overweight · obesity · plumpness

strength

power

Energy transfer rate

sturdiness · toughness · vigor · force · might · potency · hardiness · durability · solidity · fortitude

significance

importance

State of mattering

consequence · impact · clout · influence · seriousness · gravitas · momentousness · meaningfulness · import · profundity

Opposites
weight

heftinesslightness

Minimal weight or gravity

weightlessness · featheriness · airiness · insubstantiality · buoyancy

size/bulk

heftinesssmallness

Minimal physical extent

tininess · slightness · diminutiveness · littleness · minuteness

substantiality/significance

heftinessmeagerness

Insufficiency in amount

scantiness · inadequacy · sparseness · sparsity · scarcity

Family

hefty, heft, hefted, hefts, hefting

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