different between corpulency vs corpulentness

corpulency

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k??(?)pj?l?nsi/

Noun

corpulency (countable and uncountable, plural corpulencies)

  1. 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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corpulentness

English

Etymology

corpulent +? -ness

Noun

corpulentness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being corpulent.

Synonyms

  • corpulence
  • corpulency

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

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