gravezza

Italian

Etymology

From grave (“heavy”) +‎ -ezza.

Noun

gravezza f (plural gravezze)

  1. (literary) heaviness, weight, weightiness
    Synonym: pesantezza
  2. (literary, figurative) discomfort, anguish, distress
    Synonyms: molestia, disagio, travaglio
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      […] questa mi porse tanto di gravezza ¶ con la paura ch’uscia di sua vista, ¶ ch’io perdei la speranza de l’altezza.
      She brought upon me so much heaviness, with the affright that from her aspect came, that I the hope relinquished of the height.

Further reading
  • gravézza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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