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FATNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excess bodily weight
Example:
she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others
Synonyms:
avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fatness" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fatness"):
adiposeness; adiposity; fattiness (having the property of containing fat)
abdominousness; paunchiness (the bodily property of a protruding belly)
greasiness; oiliness; oleaginousness (consisting of or covered with oil)
corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)
steatopygia (an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks)
Antonym:
leanness (the property of having little body fat)
Derivation:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
