weightiness

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weightiness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Weightiness \Weight"i*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force;
     importance; impressiveness.
     [1913 Webster]

weightiness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  weightiness
      n 1: the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion
           carries great weight"; "the progression implied an
           increasing weightiness of the items listed" [syn: weight,
           weightiness]
      2: the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the
         heaviness of lead" [syn: heaviness, weightiness] [ant:
         lightness, weightlessness]