different between corpulency vs corpulence
corpulency
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??(?)pj?l?nsi/
Noun
corpulency (countable and uncountable, plural corpulencies)
- Alternative form of corpulence
- the heaviness and corpulency of the water requiring a great force to divide it
- 1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Priest of Spring," in A Miscellany of Men,
- No man, however indulgent (as I am) to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon.
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corpulence
English
Alternative forms
- corpulency
Etymology
From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.
Noun
corpulence (countable and uncountable, plural corpulences)
- The state or characteristic of being corpulent.
Synonyms
- corpulentness (obsolete)
- obesity
- pudginess
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin corpulentia.
Noun
corpulence f (plural corpulences)
- corpulence (quality of being corpulent)
Related terms
- corpulent
Further reading
- “corpulence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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