Corpulence Definition

kôrpyə-ləns
noun
Fatness or stoutness of body; obesity.
Webster's New World
The definition of corpulence is the state of being extremely overweight.
An example of corpulence is an obese person.
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Other Word Forms of Corpulence

Noun

Singular:
corpulence
Plural:
corpulences

Origin of Corpulence

  • Middle English corporality from Latin corpulentia corpulence from corpulentus corpulent from corpus body kwrep- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.

    From Wiktionary

Corpulence Sentence Examples

  • Though the doctors warned him that with his corpulence wine was dangerous for him, he drank a great deal.

  • He has left an odious picture of himself in the historians - a man untouched by benefits or natural affection, delighting in deeds of blood, his body as loathsome in its blown corpulence as his soul.

  • This corpulence was due not alone to over-feeding but to an almost purely vegetable diet; stoutness was a part of the ideal of feminine beauty.

  • For the physiology of fasting, see Dietetics; Nutrition; also Corpulence.

  • It is, in fact, very much the same system as that proposed a number of years ago by Banting (see Corpulence).

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