Definition of "heaviness" []

• The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity. (noun)
• Oppression; dejectedness, sadness. (noun)

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• "Making a death metal album sound nice and clean without losing the heaviness is a subtle art and he's consistently nailed it."
• "However, this heaviness is also a result of the author's ardent and instant imagination, forming a scene and a dialogue of each incident in the narrative without taking the necessary backward look at the general perspective."
• "Indeed, I was in rather a low way that day; which was due in part to my not being able, for all my thinking, to see any sort of a clear course before me; and in part to the fact that the weather was thickening and that my spirits were dulled a good deal by what we call the heaviness of the air."