heft
noun/heft/
/heft/
[uncountable] (especially North American English)- the weight of somebody/something
- She was surprised by the sheer heft of the package.
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- ability or influence
- Her performance lacks emotional heft.
- This research adds heft to recent findings that modern human migrants arrived in Europe earlier than previously thought.
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