corpulence

• corpulency

From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊləns/

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corpulence (countable and uncountable, plural corpulences)

1. The characteristic or state of being corpulent.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) corpulentness, fatness, obesity, pudginess

   Antonyms: slimness, thinness

   • 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “We Return to Unyanyembe”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration […], volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 182:

     Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.

• corpulence index

Learned borrowing from Latin corpulentia.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.py.lɑ̃s/

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corpulence f (plural corpulences)

1. corpulence (quality of being corpulent)

• corpulent

• “corpulence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.