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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, voluminousness
Words Related to heftiness

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

excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness, immoderacy

abundance, ampleness, bountifulness, copiousness, generosity, liberality
Near Antonyms of heftiness

diminutiveness, minuteness, tininess

slightness

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

heaviness, massiveness, ponderousness, weightiness
Words Related to heftiness

overweight

solidity, solidness, substantiality, substantialness

bulk, bulkiness, hugeness

cumbersomeness
Near Antonyms of heftiness

airiness, delicacy, ethereality, etherealness

flimsiness, fluffiness, insubstantiality, slightness
Antonyms of heftiness

lightness, weightlessness

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