Lexic.us

Definition of Fattiness

1. Noun. Having the property of containing fat. "He recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity"

Definition of Fattiness

1. n. State or quality of being fatty.

Definition of Fattiness

1. Noun. The quality of being fatty ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fattiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fattiness

Literary usage of Fattiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"Yet the yellowness is of the same nature, in either being only fattiness. But the difference between them is made by the nature of the things which become ..."

2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1871)
"This tendency to fattiness in either case is the cause of the yellowness; but in the grey tubercle the supervening fattiness comes more slowly over its ..."

3. Monthly Abstract of Medical Science (1879)
"As premonitory syncope or exhaustion may happen from time to time before death from heart-fattiness, so '• attacks" of obstruction may rim before final ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"Weakness of the heart often depends on fattiness of that organ. A distinction must be made between cardiac disease due to accumulation of fat on the heart, ..."

5. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1880)
"... a fattiness and flabbiness of the muscular structure of the heart has been sought for and almost universally found ! The fatal result has not been ..."

6. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius, William Alfred Packard (1876)
"Excessive fleshiness and fattiness of body were equally rare. They were freer than other mortal races from all that hinders and oppresses the motion of the ..."

Other Resources: