Gravity

n.	1.	The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
	2.	Sobriety of character or demeanor.
	3.	Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense. They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of the place where they were uttered. - Burke.
	4.	(Physics) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
	5.	(Mus.) Lowness of tone; - opposed to acuteness. Center of gravity See under Center. Gravity battery See Battery, n., 4. Specific gravity the ratio of the weight of a body to the weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the standard or unit. This standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air for gases. Thus, 19, the specific gravity of gold, expresses the fact that, bulk for bulk, gold is nineteen times as heavy as water.

Noun	1.	gravity - (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force
	2.	gravity - a manner that is serious and solemn Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness
	3.	gravity - a solemn and dignified feeling Synonyms: solemnity Antonyms: levity - feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

G, G suit, acuteness, adduction, affinity, allurement, apogeotropism, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, augustness, avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, bleakness, buckram, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal force, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, courtliness, darkness, deadweight, decorousness, demureness, dignifiedness, dignity, dismalness, drag, draw, dreariness, earnestness, elevation, exigency, extrinsicality, fatness, form, formality, formalization, geotropism, gloom, gloominess, grandeur, gravitation, graviton, grimness, gross weight, heaviness, heft, heftiness, immediacy, impersonality, kingliness, liveweight, loftiness, long face, lordliness, magnetism, magnitude, majesty, mass, moderation, momentousness, mutual attraction, neat weight, net, net weight, no joke, no laughing matter, nobility, overbalance, overweight, pomp, pomposity, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness, proud bearing, pulling power, regality, reserve, rigidness, ritual, rituality, sedateness, severity, significance, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, somberness, specific gravity, staidness, starchiness, stateliness, stiffness, stiltedness, straight face, stylization, sublimity, sympathy, temperance, thoughtfulness, tonnage, traction, tug, underweight, urgency, venerability, wearifulness, wearisomeness, weight, weightiness, worthiness

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