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noun
The state, quality, or condition of being fat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
excess bodily weight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fat, blubber, avoirdupois
Antonyms: leanness
Broader terms: bodily property
Narrower terms: adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness, abdominousness, paunchiness, greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness, fleshiness, obesity, corpulency, steatopygia
History
From Middle English fatnesse, fattenesse, from Old English fǣtnes (“fatness, the richest part of anything”), equivalent to fat + -ness.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
