fatness

Other forms of fatness

plural

fatnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fatness

What does fatness mean?

fatness means "excess bodily weight".

How many syllables are in fatness?

fatness has 2 syllables: fat-ness. The stress falls on "fat".

What is another word for fatness?

Close synonyms include fat, blubber, avoirdupois. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fatness?

The recorded antonyms are leanness.

Is fatness a common word?

fatness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.