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 and divides as fat-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.