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PLUMPNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bodily property of being well rounded
Synonyms:
embonpoint; plumpness; roundness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("plumpness" is a kind of...):
corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plumpness"):
chubbiness; pudginess; rolypoliness; tubbiness (the property of having a plump and round body)
buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)
Derivation:
plump (sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure)
