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Having much matter in a place, which resists motion when pushed.

Heavy (adjective) means: Having much matter in a place, which resists motion when pushed. It emerges from matter, big: Matter in a place interacts with space to resist motion, and when that resistance is greater than usual, the effect is perceived as heavy. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 21, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

heavy.physical · forms: heavier, heaviest, heavy

Emergence

from: matter big
through: Matter in a place interacts with space to resist motion, and when that resistance is greater than usual, the effect is perceived as heavy.

Chain to foundations

energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.heavyL21 heavy.physical: Having much matter in a place, which resists motion when pushed.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built fromheavyL21heavy.physical — Having much matter in a place, which resists motion when pushed.matterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.bigL2big.size — Having much space; more space than another thing has.

Relations

contrasts-withbig.sizeheavy emphasizes resistance due to density, not just spatial extent
medium-forweight.physicalheavy describes a high degree of weight

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6