gravity
//ˈɡɹævɪti//
Forms
- Plural
- gravities
Definitions
1.Senses relating to seriousness.
- I hope you appreciate the gravity of the situation.
- Captain Bonneville sat smoking his pipe, and listening to them with Indian silence and gravity.
- But she grew uneasy at the settled gravity of his face, and the joy gradually died off her own.
2.Senses relating to physical qualities.
- Do you know that gravity is pulling at you, tugging at you, trying to drag you down, from the moment you awake in the morning till you tumble into bed at night?
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4048
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us
Proto-Italic *gʷraus
Latin gravis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin gravitāslbor.
French gravitébor.
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