weightiness

1. 1.

   the relative importance granted to something

   “his opinion carries great weight”

   “the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed”

   Synonymsweight

   Broaderimportance
2. 2.

   the property of being comparatively great in weight

   “the heaviness of lead”

   Synonymsheaviness

   Broaderweight

   Narrowerheftpreponderance

Other forms of weightiness

plural

weightinesses·

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 weightiness

What does weightiness mean?

weightiness means "the relative importance granted to something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weightiness?

weightiness has 3 syllables: weigh-ti-ness. The stress falls on "weigh".

What is another word for weightiness?

Close synonyms include weight, heaviness. 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.

Is weightiness a common word?

weightiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.