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Italian
Etymology
From grave (“heavy”) + -ezza.
Noun
gravezza f (plural gravezze)
- (literary) heaviness, weight, weightiness
- Synonym: pesantezza
- (literary, figurative) discomfort, anguish, distress
- Synonyms: molestia, disagio, travaglio
mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:[…] questa mi porse tanto di gravezza ¶ con la paura ch’uscia di sua vista, ¶ ch’io perdei la speranza de l’altezza.- She brought upon me so much heaviness, with the affright that from her aspect came, that I the hope relinquished of the height.
Further reading
- gravézza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana