PLUMPNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plumpness mean? 

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

1. the bodily property of being well rounded

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUMPNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily property of being well rounded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

embonpoint; plumpness; roundness

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

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

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

chubbiness; pudginess; rolypoliness; tubbiness (the property of having a plump and round body)

buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)

Derivation:

plump (sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure)

 Context examples 

But happily, either Anne was improved in plumpness and looks, or Lady Russell fancied her so; and Anne, in receiving her compliments on the occasion, had the amusement of connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and of hoping that she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more consequence.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)