GRAVITY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for GRAVITY?

Need another word that means the same as “gravity”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “gravity” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Gravity” are: gravitation, solemnity, graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness, attraction, pull, weight, heaviness, seriousness, importance, profundity, significance, momentousness, moment, weightiness, consequence, magnitude, severity

Gravity as a Noun

Definitions of "Gravity" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “gravity” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The degree of intensity of gravity, measured by acceleration.
• A solemn and dignified feeling.
• Solemnity of manner.
• The force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface.
• Extreme importance; seriousness.
• (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface.
• A manner that is serious and solemn.
• The force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.

Synonyms of "Gravity" as a noun (21 Words)

attraction	An entertainment that is offered to the public. The church is the town s main tourist attraction.
consequence	A game in which a narrative is made up by the players in turn, each ignorant of what has already been contributed. His decision had depressing consequences for business.
graveness	A manner that is serious and solemn.
gravitation	Movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction. Irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps.
heaviness	An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency. Nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss.
importance	The quality of being important and worthy of note. The importance of a good education.
magnitude	A number assigned to the ratio of two quantities two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power o. About the magnitude of a small pea.
moment	A quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first second third or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from a given value typically mean or zero The first moment is the mean the second moment the variance the third moment the skew and the fourth moment the kurtosis. Virtue is of more moment than security.
momentousness	Utmost importance.
profundity	Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc. The profundity of her misery.
pull	A device used for pulling something. He was ruled out of the game with a hamstring pull.
seriousness	The quality of arousing fear or distress. She replied with deadly seriousness.
severity	Excessive sternness. Hay fever symptoms vary in severity.
significance	The quality of being worthy of attention; importance. Adolescent education was felt to be a social issue of some significance.
soberness	The state of not being under the influence of alcohol; sobriety. He leaves the festivities proclaiming his soberness.
sobriety	The state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol. The price of beer compelled me to maintain a certain level of sobriety.
solemnity	A solemn and dignified feeling. His ashes were laid to rest with great solemnity.
somberness	A manner that is serious and solemn.
sombreness	A feeling of melancholy apprehension.
weight	A system of units used to express the weight of something. Be careful when lifting a heavy weight.
weightiness	The relative importance granted to something. The progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed.

Usage Examples of "Gravity" as a noun

• The more remote the body the less the gravity.
• Crimes of the utmost gravity.
• Has the poet ever spoken with greater eloquence or gravity?

Associations of "Gravity" (30 Words)

acceleration	A rate of increase of velocity. The three litre model has spectacular acceleration.
agility	Ability to move quickly and easily. Games teach hand eye coordination mental agility and alertness.
center	The person who plays center on a hockey team. That vase in the picture is not centered.
centrifugal	Tending away from centralization, as of authority. The division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever increasing centrifugal stress.
conduction	The process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through the material of a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions, without movement of the material.
deceleration	The act of decelerating; decreasing the speed. Speed brakes enable the aircraft to carry out rapid deceleration.
decline	Bend down; droop. The company declined to comment.
earth	Used in names of stable dense non volatile inorganic substances e g fuller s earth. We now commit his body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust.
emasculate	Having unsuitable feminine qualities. The Senate emasculated the law.
fall	Come as if by falling. We re worried that standards are falling.
fastness	A strongly fortified defensive structure. The dyes differ in their fastness to light.
force	Make a way through or into by physical strength break open by force. The force of popular opinion.
going	Progress affected by the condition of the ground. She is a big support when the going gets tough.
gravitation	The force responsible for gravitation gravity. Irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps.
gravitational	Denoting a forceful attraction or movement towards something. For many international companies Russia s gravitational pull is simply too strong to resist.
haste	Excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry. Working with feverish haste.
hustle	Obtain illicitly or by forceful action. She hustled a free lunch from the waiter.
move	Cause to move or shift into a new position or place both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. If you haven t moved your bowels today you d better do it now.
nucleus	A discrete mass of grey matter in the central nervous system. The nucleus of a British film producing industry.
physics	The branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy The subject matter of physics includes mechanics heat light and other radiation sound electricity magnetism and the structure of atoms. The physics of plasmas.
rush	Cause to move fast or to rush or race. We have to rush.
shove	A strong push. The people pushed and shoved to get in line.
slowly	Without speed slow is sometimes used informally for slowly. They moved forward slowly.
speed	Of a motorist travel at a speed that is greater than the legal limit. Oak tables and chairs are more his speed.
stronghold	A strongly fortified defensive structure. A Labour stronghold.
submerse	Submerge. Pellets were then submersed in agar.
swiftness	The quality of moving at high speed. The turtle ran on shore with remarkable swiftness.
tropic	The parallel of latitude 23 26 north tropic of Cancer or south tropic of Capricorn of the equator. Tropical islands.
waning	A gradual decrease in magnitude or extent. The waxing and waning of the moon.
weaken	Lessen the strength of. His resistance had weakened.