HEAV'INESS, noun hev'iness. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body. 1. Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Proverbs 12:25. Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. 1 Peter 1:6. 2. Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude. What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? 3. Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes. 4. That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught. 5. Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil. 6. Thickness; moistness; as of air.
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