corpulency

Other forms: corpulencies

Definitions of corpulency
  1. noun
    more than average fatness
    synonyms: fleshiness, obesity
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    adiposis, corpulence, overweight, stoutness
    the property of excessive fatness
    exogenous obesity
    obesity caused by overeating
    embonpoint, plumpness, roundness
    the bodily property of being well rounded
    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
    type of:
    avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness
    excess bodily weight
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