ponderosity

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɒndəˈɹɒsɪti/

Noun

ponderosity (countable and uncountable, plural ponderosities)

1. The quality of requiring extensive thought.
   • 1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter IV, in Doctor Thorne:

     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

2. (obsolete) Weight; heaviness.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     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.