gravezza
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From grave (“heavy”) + -ezza.
Noun edit
gravezza f (plural gravezze)
- (literary) heaviness, weight, weightiness
- Synonym: pesantezza
- (literary, figurative) discomfort, anguish, distress
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
Further reading edit
- gravézza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana