equipondious

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adjective

Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.

OriginLatin aequipondium →
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Meanings

adjectiveequipondious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleterareOf equal weight on both sides; balanced.

    And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.

    1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius, London: E. Cotes, page 168

Origin

  1. Latinaequipondium“an equal weight”
  2. Englishequipondious

From Latin aequipondium (“an equal weight”), from aequus (“equal”) + pondus (“weight”).

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APA

equipondious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/equipondious

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“equipondious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/equipondious. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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