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Answer for the clue "The property of being comparatively great in weight ", 11 letters:
weightiness

Word definitions for weightiness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead" [syn: heaviness ] [ant: lightness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weightiness \Weight"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being weighty

Usage examples of weightiness.

It was pleasant to be apart from him, his experience, his weightiness, the innocent oppressiveness of his maturity, his dominance.

Yet there seemed in Spear a heaviness, a weightiness, that was not in the younger man, Knife.

This is a most awful act of worship: I trust the intimation to it was attended with proper weightiness of spirit.

Much more weightiness of spirit appeared to exist in the strangers who attended, and consequently more stillness.

This information, he says, was received by my friends with much sympathy and, I trust, weightiness of spirit, and I felt a little strengthened by the expression of their feelings and unity with me in this concern.

Despite her weightiness, Misses Beavis got about her house like a two-year-old.

Willy wanted her prospective husband never to know this, but at times, when regarding the smooth breadth of his back or the sheer weightiness of his hands, she experienced a little eroticized thrill of fear.