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fatness

noun
/ˈfætnəs/US

Etymology

From Middle English fatnesse, fattenesse, from Old English fǣtnes (“fatness, the richest part of anything”), equivalent to fat + -ness.

  1. inherited from fǣtnes — “fatness, the richest part of anything”
  2. inherited from fatnesse

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being fat.

    • Bread made of Pannick nouriſheth little, and is cold and dry, verie brittle, hauing in it neither clammineſſe, nor fatneſſe; and therefore it drieth a moiſt belly.
    • As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
    • This fatness was Kartar Singh: it was the flesh singing, in bulging cantilenas and plump pedal-notes, a congenital and contented stupidity, a stupidity itself as positive as the sun.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA