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obesity

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /oʊˈbisɪti/
  • Canada, General-American: [-ɾi]
  • Australian: /ə(ʉ)ˈbiːsɪti/
  • Australian: /ɐ(ʉ)ˈbiːsɪti/
  • Australian: [-ɾi]
  • obsolete: /oʊˈbɛzɪti/
  • CMU ARPABET: OW0 B IY1 S AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: AH0 B IY1 S AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The state of being obese.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

more than average fatness

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fleshiness, corpulency

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois

Narrower terms: corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposis, exogenous obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, roundness

History

Etymology

From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus (“fat”). By surface analysis, obese + -ity.

Across languages

Translations

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Southern Altai: семирер (semirer) — act or state of being obese
  • Arabic: سِمْنَة (simna) — act or state of being obese
  • Arabic: بَدَانَة (badāna) — act or state of being obese
  • Armenian: գիրություն (girutʻyun) — act or state of being obese
  • Armenian: չաղություն (čʻaġutʻyun) — act or state of being obese
  • Basque: loditasun — act or state of being obese
  • Bulgarian: затлъстяване (zatlǎstjavane) — act or state of being obese
  • Burmese: အဝလွန်ခြင်း (a.wa.lwanhkrang:) — act or state of being obese
  • Catalan: obesitat — act or state of being obese
  • Chinese Mandarin: 肥胖 (féipàng) — act or state of being obese
  • Chinese Mandarin: 肥胖症 (féipàngzhèng) — act or state of being obese
  • Czech: obezita — act or state of being obese
  • Czech: otylost — act or state of being obese
  • Danish: fedme — act or state of being obese
  • Danish: overvægt — act or state of being obese
  • Dutch: obesitas — act or state of being obese
  • Esperanto: obezeco — act or state of being obese
  • Estonian: rasvumus — act or state of being obese
  • Finnish: liikalihavuus — act or state of being obese
  • Finnish: ylipaino — act or state of being obese
  • French: obésité — act or state of being obese
  • Galician: obesidade — act or state of being obese
  • Georgian: სიმსუქნე (simsukne) — act or state of being obese
  • Georgian: გაცხიმოვნება (gacximovneba) — act or state of being obese
  • German: Fettsucht — act or state of being obese
  • German: Übergewicht — act or state of being obese
  • German: Adipositas — act or state of being obese
  • German: Fettleibigkeit — act or state of being obese
  • Greek: παχυσαρκία (pachysarkía) — act or state of being obese
  • Hebrew: שׁוֹמֶן (shomen) — act or state of being obese
  • Hebrew: השמנת יתר חולנית — act or state of being obese
  • Hindi: मोटापा (moṭāpā) — act or state of being obese
  • Hungarian: elhízás — act or state of being obese
  • Hungarian: obezitás — act or state of being obese
  • Icelandic: offita — act or state of being obese
  • Indonesian: obesitas — act or state of being obese
  • Irish: otracht — act or state of being obese
  • Irish: murtall — act or state of being obese
  • Irish: beathaitheacht — act or state of being obese
  • Irish: cothaitheacht — act or state of being obese
  • Irish: foircheas — act or state of being obese
  • Irish: foircheasacht — act or state of being obese
  • Italian: obesità — act or state of being obese
  • Japanese: 肥満 (himan) — act or state of being obese
  • Japanese: 肥大 (hidai) — act or state of being obese
  • Japanese: 肥満症 (himanshō) — act or state of being obese
  • Kalmyk: әрмгллһн (ärmgllğn) — act or state of being obese
  • Kazakh: толықтық (tolyqtyq) — act or state of being obese
  • Kazakh: семіздік (semızdık) — act or state of being obese
  • Korean: 비만 (biman) — act or state of being obese
  • Kyrgyz: семирүү (semirüü) — act or state of being obese
  • Latin: obēsitās — act or state of being obese
  • Latin: adeps — act or state of being obese
  • Lithuanian: nutukimas — act or state of being obese
  • Malay: obesiti — act or state of being obese
  • Malayalam: പൊണ്ണത്തടി (poṇṇattaṭi) — act or state of being obese
  • Malayalam: അമിതവണ്ണം (amitavaṇṇaṁ) — act or state of being obese
  • Māori: mate mōmona — act or state of being obese
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fedme — act or state of being obese
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overvekt — act or state of being obese
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overvekt — act or state of being obese
  • Occitan: obesitat — act or state of being obese
  • Persian: چاقی (čâqi) — act or state of being obese
  • Polish: otyłość — act or state of being obese
  • Portuguese: obesidade — act or state of being obese
  • Romanian: obezitate — act or state of being obese
  • Russian: ожире́ние (ožirénije) — act or state of being obese
  • Russian: ту́чность (túčnostʹ) — act or state of being obese
  • Serbo-Croatian: прѐтило̄ст — act or state of being obese
  • Serbo-Croatian: го̏ја̄зно̄ст — act or state of being obese
  • Serbo-Croatian: prètilōst — act or state of being obese
  • Serbo-Croatian: gȍjāznōst — act or state of being obese
  • Sicilian: sbisazzatizza — act or state of being obese
  • Slovak: obezita — act or state of being obese
  • Slovene: debelost — act or state of being obese
  • Spanish: obesidad — act or state of being obese
  • Spanish: sobrepeso — act or state of being obese
  • Spanish: adiposis — act or state of being obese
  • Swahili: kiribatumbo — act or state of being obese
  • Swedish: fetma — act or state of being obese
  • Tamil: உடற்பருமன் (uṭaṟparumaṉ) — act or state of being obese
  • Turkish: obezite — act or state of being obese
  • Ottoman Turkish: سمیزلك (semizlik) — act or state of being obese
  • Ottoman Turkish: شیشمانلق (şişmanlık) — act or state of being obese
  • Ukrainian: ожирі́нння (ožyrínnnja) — act or state of being obese
  • Vietnamese: béo phì — act or state of being obese
  • Yiddish: גראָב (grob) — act or state of being obese
Real reading context

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