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Weightiness

Definition: Weightiness

Weightiness

Noun

1. The property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weightiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)


Synonym: Weightiness

Synonym: heaviness (n). (additional references)
Antonym: lightness (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Weightiness

"Weightiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weightiness" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Weightiness

Language Translations for "weightiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rëndesë (attraction, gravitation, gravity, heaviness, heft, ponderosity, ponderousness), peshë (caliber, calibre, Dolly, heft, load, meterage, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, strain, weight). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نفوذ (authority, clout, in, influence, leverage, potency, power, prestige, purchase, reign, standing, tutelage, weight), ‏وزن (authority, avoirdupois, counterweight, metering, scale, weigh, weighing, weight), ‏أهمية (account, consequence, consideration, import, importance, magnitude, moment, pith, prominence, significance, standing, stress, value, weight, worth), ‏ثقل (avoirdupois, baggage, ballast, gravity, heaviness, importance, luggage, ponderosity, significance, weight). (various references)

   

French

  

lourdeur, influence (weight), importance (weight), gravité. (various references)

   

German

  

Gewichtigkeit (influence, ponderousness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βαρύτησ (gravity, heaviness, leadenness, stodginess, weight), βαρύτητα (beefiness, gravity, heaviness, leadenness, stodginess, weight). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trimmid (bounteousness, burdensomeness, charge, density, density of fog, emphasis, graveness, gravity, hardness, hardness of work, harshness, harshness of punishment, heaviness, highness, importance, intenseness, pressure, seriousness, severity, soundness, stress, weight). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eightinessway

   

Russian 

  

весомость (ponderability). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

značajnost (notability, pertinence, relevance, relevancy), važnost (consequence, importance, magnitude, moment, pertinence, weight), težina (heaviness, ponderosity, weight). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

etkili olma, ağırlık (arduousness, avoirdupois, dullness, force of gravity, gravity, heaviness, heft, massiveness, plummet, ponderosity, richness, severity, slowness, weight), önemlilik. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trọng lượng tầm quan trọng, tính chất trọng yếu (momentousness), sức nặng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Weightiness

Derivations

Words beginning with "weightiness": weightinesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Weightiness"

Words rhyming with "weightiness" (pronounced 'Weight"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Weightiness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-i-i-n-s-s-t-w"

-2 letters: sheetings, sightseen, sweetings, swingiest, whiteness.

-3 letters: eighties, eisweins, heisting, insights, newsiest, nighties, seething, sheeting, shiniest, sienites, sightsee, sweeting, sweetish, swishing, westings, whiniest, whisting, whitings, wingiest.

-4 letters: eiswein, genesis, heinies, hessite, hissing, histing, ignites, ingests, insight, newsies, nighest, nightie, seeings, seising, sestine, sewings, shewing, sienite, signees, signets, sithens, stewing, swinges, swinish, theines, twinges, weeting.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-i-i-n-s-s-t-w"
 

+2 letters: weightinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Weightiness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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