fatness

English

Etymology

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

Noun

fatness (countable and uncountable, plural fatnesses)

1. The state, quality, or condition of being fat.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 284:

     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.

Translations

state of being fat

• Armenian: գիրություն (hy) (girutʻyun), (colloquial) չաղություն (hy) (čʻaġutʻyun)
• Finnish: lihavuus (fi)
• Latin: aletūdō f
• Latvian: tuklība f, resnums m
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• Malay: kegemukan
• Scottish Gaelic: sult m
• Telugu: బలుపు (te) (balupu)
• Thai: ความอ้วน (th) (kwaam-ûuan)

See also

• obesity

Anagrams

• fastens