heft
4 synonyms for heft, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — How heavy something feels when you hold it.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
The noun comes from Late Middle English heft (“heaviness; something heavy, a weight”), from heven (“to lift, raise”) plus -th (suffix denoting a condition, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns), on the analogy of weft developing from weven (modern English weave); compare also cleft from cleave and theft from th...
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