heaviness

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as in weight
the amount that something weighs the numbers on the back of each sample indicate the heaviness of the carpeting material

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Noun
  • The man’s wife appears to have a different perspective on the matter, though her opinion doesn’t seem to carry much weight in the family’s final decision.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 25 July 2025
  • But in the enterprise, that model collapses under its own weight.
    Padraic O'Reilly, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Warehousing • Items are scanned in bulk at receiving and picking.
    Amy Gu, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • With the rise of plastic injection molding in the 1940s and '50s, companies started mass-producing recorders and selling them in bulk to school districts for as little as $1 apiece.
    Abigail Covington, NPR, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • There are a few mildly funny moments, such as Garfield suddenly finding out he’s been wearing a collar and tag the whole time, hidden under his furry avoirdupois.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • To make the most of the full fury of its hot-cam performance, the Integra was trimmed of 140 pounds of not-so-necessary avoirdupois.
    Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 21 May 2020
Noun
  • Other main themes that guests can find in Guidi’s work are the relationship between space and light, between the solidity of architecture and the fleeting nature of the instant, between urban space and individual perception, between material traces and memory.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 20 June 2025
  • Relations quickly deteriorated with Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and, even more rapidly, Nuno Espirito Santo, all managers who value out-of-possession solidity over intricate positional play.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Heaviness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heaviness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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