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• n  an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency
  a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness
• n  the property of being large in mass

• One of Mendelssohn's least attractive symphonies, in which the brassy ponderousness of the two outer movements smothers the charm and simplicity of the woodwinds in the two .
• Compared to the simple audacity and youth of rugby, the ponderousness of American football as played and presented today reminds me of a weight)' clash between the Boards of .
• The images were unairbrushed and unironic, which freed them of the twin burdens of prettiness and ponderousness.

• heaviness
• heft
• heftiness
• massiveness
• ponderosity

Quotes

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• Sylvester Stallone in Washington Post
  The ponderousness that comes with aging, the sense of weight, the sense of knowledge, of knowing too much, the lack of naivete, which has happened in my life, set the stage for me,Sylvester Stallone says.