rotundity

noun

Definition of rotunditynext
as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat finally a diet that really worked, allowing her to forget about her rotundity and focus on her health

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  1. obesity
  2. weight
  3. corpulence
Noun
  • Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity, according to the surgeon general's advisory.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The advisory notes that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the country, after tobacco and obesity.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of obesity
Noun
  • Which Is Better for Weight Loss? Both oat and almond milk may be beneficial for weight loss.
    Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, RDN, LD, Health, 14 Jan. 2025
  • New and better weight loss compounds may be discovered.
    David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of weight
Noun
  • Whimsy was also the domain of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose signature was a race of voluptuously bloated figures — denizens, from priests to bullfighters, of an almost cartoonish world that, to him, had to do not with corpulence but with the sensuality of human life.
    William McDonald, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • His thick musculature having bloated into unhealthy corpulence, Maradona was hospitalized in Buenos Aires in April 2004 with what doctors described as a weakened heart and acute breathing problems.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
Definition of corpulence
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