heaviness

Other forms of heaviness

plural

heavinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heaviness

What does heaviness mean?

heaviness means "the property of being comparatively great in weight". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heaviness?

heaviness has 4 syllables: he-a-vi-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for heaviness?

Close synonyms include weightiness, ponderousness, thickness, burdensomeness, onerousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of heaviness?

The recorded antonyms are lightness.

Is heaviness a common word?

heaviness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.