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obeseness Definition


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obese
adj
    1. Very or abnormally fat.
      Thesaurus: fat, overweight, heavy, fleshy, bulky, stout, rotund, portly, gross, corpulent, tubby, paunchy, roly-poly; Antonym: skinny, slender, thin.
Derivative: obeseness
noun
    Derivative: obesity
    noun
      The condition of someone who is overweight as a result of the accumulation of excess fat in the body.
    Etymology: 17c: from Latin obesus plump or having eaten oneself fat, from ob- completely + edere, esum to eat.



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