HEAV'INESS, n. hev'iness. Weight ponderousness gravity the quality of being heavy as the heaviness of a body.
1. Sadness sorrow dejection of mind depression of spirits.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Proverbs 12
Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations. 1 Peter 1
2. Sluggishness torpidness dullness of spirit languidness languor lassitude.
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
3. Weight burden oppression as, the heaviness of taxes.
4. That which it requires great strength to move or overcome that which creates labor and difficulty as the heaviness of a draught.
5. Thickness moistness deepness as the heaviness of ground or soil.
6. Thickness moistness as of air.