heaviness
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4.5
- noun
- /ˈhɛviness/
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- I could feel a deep heaviness in my heart after hearing the sad news.
And you feel a heaviness in your chest.
- And you feel a heaviness in your chest.
- There can be a sadness, A resignation, A heaviness, but it's no longer a helplessness.
- And with that, a heaviness gets lifted.
- It doesn't need to come from a place of heaviness.
- It just seemed like I'm not going to let the heaviness of all of this drag me down.
- And it means something like it's something fairly similar to this, this sadness or dejection, heaviness or weariness of heart.
- And so cortisol being the stress hormone, it's also something that can then flood your body with a sense of like worry or heaviness or overwhelm.
- You see, when making a decision, you will feel which path brings you more life and which path brings you more constriction, more heaviness.
- He talks about how like the cloud of heaviness and darkness that had surrounded him all of a sudden, like poof.
- So I can, I can really almost metabolize that heaviness with my team.
- I'm older, I'm wiser and I'm don't want the heaviness of it anymore, you know?
- He had a reporter from New York writing about him and I felt the heaviness of this.
- And there does seem to feel like there is a bit of a a lifting in that kind of heaviness and intensity.
- And if you feel that heaviness, if you feel something that starts to just just just nibble.
Examples
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And you feel a heaviness in your chest.
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Obviously the pandemic, but there's been so much other heaviness going on in the last month.
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There was a certain kind of a certain heaviness about things that I had never really experienced before.
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And I feel heaviness as I talk about it because it's such a burden.
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Instead of the heaviness I have felt all day, I am now energetic, confident, at peace.
Fiction book (1993) -
But we don't have to live with the heaviness of heart that comes from those actions.
Blog text (12) -
There can be a sadness, A resignation, A heaviness, but it's no longer a helplessness.
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There was an indefinable heaviness in the air: the weight of an unseen presence.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her tear frees his heart of its heaviness, and he delights in the discovery that he is loved.
Academic text (2003) -
Whatever they decide, TGSOD makes for a good distraction from the heaviness of the daily grind.
Blog text (22)
Synonyms
482
3.4
A heavy load or something that causes worry and difficulty
330
3.7
A deep feeling of sadness and loss of interest in life
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1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
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4.2
A strong mental feeling of pressure or burden
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3.2
A feeling of sadness and low spirits
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4.9
A deep, long-lasting feeling of sadness
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7.3
A heavy feeling of worry and responsibility
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8.0
A sad heavy feeling that hangs over a place
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6.5
A deep, quiet feeling or look of sadness
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3.4
A feeling of sadness and little hope felt by people or in a place
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9.9
A deep sadness about the suffering and unfairness in the world
A feeling of deep sadness and loss
A deep feeling of sadness about a loss
A quiet feeling of sadness and low spirits
A feeling of being sad and having little hope
A feeling of being sad or low
A time when someone feels sad and without energy
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Etymology
The word heaviness comes from the root heavy ('heavy') and the ending -ness ('state'). A helpful way to remember the feeling sense is to picture sadness as a weight on your chest — being 'weighed down' — so heaviness can mean an emotional burden.