gravity

Meaning

Noun

• The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
• The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.
• The lowness of a note.
• Force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
• Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
• Specific gravity.

Related

Similar words

• weightfulness
• The state or condition of being grave: graveness, seriousness

Origin

• 16th century, learned borrowing from (compare French gravité), from gravis. gravitas.