FATNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Excess bodily weight

Example:

she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others

Synonyms:

avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("fatness" is a kind of...):

bodily property (an attribute of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fatness"):

adiposeness; adiposity; fattiness (having the property of containing fat)

abdominousness; paunchiness (the bodily property of a protruding belly)

greasiness; oiliness; oleaginousness (consisting of or covered with oil)

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

steatopygia (an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks)

Antonym:

leanness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)