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Meaning of ponderosity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
/ˌpɒndəˈɹɒsɪti/

Definitions

  1. The quality of requiring extensive thought.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Weight; heaviness.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion to peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if offered to her without the promise that it should be in the upper house”
“Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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