plumpness

English

Etymology

plump +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

plumpness (usually uncountable, plural plumpnesses)

1. The quality or state of being plump.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:

     From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.

   • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna‎^[1], L.C. Page, →OCLC:

     For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

Synonyms

• plumptitude

Antonyms

• leanness

Translations

quality or state of being plump

• Bulgarian: закръгленост f (zakrǎglenost)
• Irish: raimhre f, beathaitheacht f
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (himan), 肥胖 (hihan)
• Korean: 육덕(肉德) (yukdeok), 통통함 (ko) (tongtongham), 통실함 (tongsilham)
• Scottish Gaelic: sult m
• Telugu: బలుపు (te) (balupu)

References

• “plumpness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.