Impact
Impact noun - The power to bring about a result on another.
Usage example: the execution had such a powerful impact on her that she became a crusader for the abolition of capital punishment
Weight is a synonym for impact in force topic. In some cases you can use "Weight" instead a noun "Impact", when it comes to topics like significance, effect.
Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless
Weight
Weight noun - The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly.
Usage example: as a critic he has great weight in the theater world
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| emotional | emotional impact | emotional weight |
| high | high impact | high weight |
| low | low impact | low weight |
| equal | equal impact | equal weight |
| Other adjectives: considerable, sheer, actual, real, massive, large, big, great, serious, enormous, huge, little, dramatic, psychological, less, negative, extra, tremendous, greater, added. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Its not until he realizes the impact his weight is having on his family (who had to open a hostel for rude German backpackers to pay for the camp) that he vows to take losing weight seriously.
Source: Diet Episode -
Their light weight means that the impact force from hitting at terminal velocity is less than the fracture rating of their exoskeleton.
Source: Death by Falling Over - When launched, their mass is reduced so as to propel them to near the speed of light, then it's restored upon impact to put the full weight of the impact to bear.
Source: Inertial Dampening
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