Obesity
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noun.
The condition of being obese; increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of fat.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
The condition or quality of being obese or corpulent; corpulency; polysarcia adiposa.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The state or quality of being obese; excessive body weight; incumbrance of flesh.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
The state of being
obese
due to an excess of body fat.
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noun.
more than average fatness
Word Usage
"Indeed, I have previously proposed that the rise in obesity is more closely related to the mental [...]"
Form
diabesity
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
avoirdupois
blubber
fat
fatness
Hyponym
Words that are more specific
adiposis
corpulence
embonpoint
exogenous obesity
overweight
Same Context
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