In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HEAVINESS
burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness
(noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty
heaviness, weightiness
(noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight; “the heaviness of lead”
thickness, heaviness
(noun) used of a line or mark
ponderousness, heaviness
(noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; “a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness”; “his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition”
heaviness
(noun) persisting sadness; “nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
heaviness (countable and uncountable, plural heavinesses)
The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
(archaic) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness; low spirits.
(obsolete) Drowsiness.
Anagrams
• evanishes
Source: Wiktionary
Heav"i*ness, n.
Definition: The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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