as in intentness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
the hospital waiting room was filled with the kind of gravity that inevitably accompanies worry
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With the North Node, Saturn, and Venus convening in Pisces this month, there’s simply more gravity pulling you down into the depths of the sorrows and vulnerabilities keeping you anchored in place.
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Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
Therefore, gravity keep the stuff cougher or sneezed out by someone infected with influenza viruses from traveling more than a Ryan Gosling-distance or whoever your favorite six-footer may be.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
And dozens of other tech figures are now orbiting in Trump’s gravity, as either informal advisers, government officials-in-waiting or supporters pushing Trump’s agenda from outside Washington.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
The burgeoning attempts to formally describe quantum reference frames could help make sense of these investigations of the interaction between gravity and quantum theory—an essential stepping stone to a theory of quantum gravity.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
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Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
Therefore, gravity keep the stuff cougher or sneezed out by someone infected with influenza viruses from traveling more than a Ryan Gosling-distance or whoever your favorite six-footer may be.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
And dozens of other tech figures are now orbiting in Trump’s gravity, as either informal advisers, government officials-in-waiting or supporters pushing Trump’s agenda from outside Washington.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
The burgeoning attempts to formally describe quantum reference frames could help make sense of these investigations of the interaction between gravity and quantum theory—an essential stepping stone to a theory of quantum gravity.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Gravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravity. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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