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English
Etymology
From weightful + -ness.
Noun
weightfulness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being weightful; heaviness; gravity.
- 1903, Grand Army of the Republic:
- I haven't time to look the matter up as to how it can be done — the more as I am so soon to escape its appalling weightfulness !
2005, Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique:Through his will to extend himself upward and away from gravity, the dancer counteracts weightfulness and creates a balance of upward-ness.
- Weightiness; importance.
1997, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Circulation of Thought - 1949:That is, the weightfulness of hospitality and protection, you see, by you, given to somebody else, your divine quality of -- being able to protect other men's lives has fast disappeared from your hearts.