[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being cumbrous, troublesome, burdensome or unwieldy.
1557. Sarum Primer, P ij. Make me … sadde and sober without comberousnes.
1823. New Monthly Mag., V. 50. Johnson’s habits were sedentary, both from the want of faculties for exercise and the cumbrousness of his person.
1858. J. Martineau, Studies Christianity, 39. The cumbrousness of ceremonies.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 323/1. The weight and cumbrousness of the apparatus required.
