CORPULENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corpulency mean? 

• CORPULENCY (noun)
  The noun CORPULENCY has 1 sense:

1. more than average fatness

  Familiarity information: CORPULENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPULENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More than average fatness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity

Hypernyms ("corpulency" is a kind of...):

avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness (excess bodily weight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corpulency"):

adiposis; corpulence; overweight; stoutness (the property of excessive fatness)

exogenous obesity (obesity caused by overeating)

embonpoint; plumpness; roundness (the bodily property of being well rounded)

 Context examples 

There was a certain richness in his complexion, which I had been long accustomed, under Peggotty's tuition, to connect with port wine; and I fancied it was in his voice too, and referred his growing corpulency to the same cause.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)