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
      • 1300s–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 Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
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