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fleshiness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English fleshinesse, fleschynes, equivalent to fleshy + -ness.

  1. inherited from fleshinesse

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being fleshy.

    • [T]he fleshiness of the chin, and the jovial redundancy of the cheeks, were, in their turn, utterly at variance with the character of the pale, noble forehead, and the expression of the quick, intelligent eyes.
    • The truth is, the Frenchman is rather inclined to fleshiness; yet the soup-meagre theory still prevails amongst the mass of Englishmen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fleshiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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