corpulence

English

Alternative forms

• corpulency

Etymology

From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊləns/

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• corpulence index

Translations

characteristic or state of being corpulent

• Bulgarian: дебелина (bg) f (debelina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥滿／肥满 (zh) (féimǎn), 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)

• French: corpulence (fr) f
• German: Korpulenz (de) f
• Hungarian: testesség (hu), kövérség (hu), korpulencia
• Italian: corpulenza (it) f
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
• Korean: 비만(肥滿) (ko) (biman)
• Latin: corpulentia f, adeps m or f
• Russian: ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ), доро́дность (ru) f (doródnostʹ)
• Spanish: obesidad (es) f

French

Etymology

From Latin corpulentia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

corpulence f (plural corpulences)

1. corpulence (quality of being corpulent)

Related terms

• corpulent

Further reading

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