ponderosity

plural ponderosities

1. countableuncountableThe quality of requiring extensive thought.

   The ponderosity of her qualifications for nobility was sometimes too much even for her mother, and her devotion to peerage was such, that she would certainly have declined a seat in heaven if offered to her without the promise that it should be in the upper house

   1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter IV, in Doctor Thorne

2. countableobsoleteuncountableWeight; heaviness.

   Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.

   1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC