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Fatness

1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. (Ps. Lxxiii. 7)

2. Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. (Rowe)

3. That which makes fat or fertile. The clouds drop fatness. (Philips) excess bodily weight; she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others.