ZUSSHI-RI ずっしり
Meanings
・Appearance of weight/heaviness.How weighty it looks.
Examples
・The pistol was surprisingly chunky and heavy.
拳銃は、意外にもずっしりとした重みがあった。
・When I held my newborn child in my arms for the first time, I felt the weight of life.
はじめて産まれたばかりの我が子を抱いた時、ずっしりと命の重さを感じた。
・The pressure of this major role is crushing me.
大役のプレッシャーにずっしりと押し潰されそうだ。
・Tobacco with high tar content has a pleasantly heavy sensation.
タールの多いタバコは、ずっしりとした吸いごたえがある。
Dogmatic Opinion
In addition to physical weight, it is also used for psychological burden and weight.
Even if something you thought was heavy is as heavy as you expected, you might not describe it as “Zusshiri”.
Lifting 10 kilograms of water and “Zusshiri” is not a good way to describe it.
At first you are carrying around 10 kilograms of water that you can lift with ease, and as you get more and more tired, that 10 kilograms of water turns into something “Zusshiri”.
Unlike other expressions of weight, “Zusshiri” always makes you feel the weight of it.
