Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEAV'I-NESS, n. [hev'iness.]

1. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as, the heaviness of a body.
2. Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Prov. xii. Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations. 1 Pet. i.
3. Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude. What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? Addison.
4. Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.
5. That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as, the heaviness of a draught.
6. Thickness; moistness; deepness; as, the heaviness of ground or soil.
7. Thickness; moistness; as of air.