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heftiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of heftiness

1 the quality or state of being large in size

a restaurant known for the heftiness of its portions

Synonyms of heftiness

bigness, bulkiness, grandness, greatness, largeness, substantiality, voluminousness

Words Related to heftiness

enormity, enormousness, extensiveness, grossness, healthiness, hugeness, immenseness, immensity, magnitude, massiveness, mightiness, mountainousness, prodigiousness, stupendousness, vastness

excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness, immoderacy

abundance, ampleness, bountifulness, copiousness, generosity, handsomeness, liberality, muchness

adequacy, sufficiency

Near Antonyms of heftiness

diminutiveness, minuteness, tininess

meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, skimpiness, slenderness, slimness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess

deficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness

Antonyms of heftiness

fineness, littleness, puniness, smallness

2 the state or quality of being heavy

clerks no longer have to deal with the heftiness of paper files now that everything is filed on computers

Synonyms of heftiness

avoirdupois, heaviness, massiveness, ponderousness, weightiness

Words Related to heftiness

solidity, solidness, substantiality, substantialness

bulk, bulkiness, hugeness

Near Antonyms of heftiness

airiness, delicacy, ethereality, etherealness

flimsiness, fluffiness, insubstantiality, slightness

Antonyms of heftiness

lightness, weightlessness

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