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Middle English
- hevinesse, hevynes, hevines, hevynez, hevinez, heavynesse, heavinesse, heavynes, heavines, hewynesse, hewinesse, hewynes, hewines, hevenes, hevenis, heunys, heyvenys
Etymology
From Old English hefiġnes; equivalent to (and influenced by) hevy + -nesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛːviːnɛs/, /ˈhɛːvinɛs/, /ˈhɛv-/
Noun
hevynesse (uncountable)
- The quality of having great weight; heaviness.
- Fulness or sufficiency in quantity; abundance.
- Great force or intensity.
- Great importance or meaning.
- The quality of being difficult to bear or accomplish; burdensomeness.
- Slowness or sluggishness of movement.
- A lack of vitality due to factors such as fatigue, age, disease or conscience.
- (religion) The vice of sloth or idleness.
- Woe, sorrow, grief; anxiety, unease.
- Vexation, annoyance; hostility.
- (of topic) Gravity, seriousness
- A misfortune or grievance.
- (of scent) Offensiveness, oppressiveness.
- (of sound) Depth, lowness of pitch.
- (meteorology) Inclemency.
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