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The weight a thing carries before gravity gets involved.
means The quality of mattering — of being significant enough to demand attention, care, or consequence.
from From Latin importare, to carry in or bring inward — important things literally carry something into the room with them.
Same rootShares ancestry with import, the trade kind.
Self-defeatingSelf-importance signals the opposite of the real thing.
Relative weightNothing is important; things are important to someone.