fleshiness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English fleshinesse, fleschynes, equivalent to fleshy + -ness.

Where had been soft blue tracings were red and angry veins; where had been gracious roundness was gross fleshiness. — Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain, C. Bryson Taylor
Elfride had as her own the thoughtfulness which appears in the face of the Madonna della Sedia, without its rapture: the warmth and spirit of the type of woman’s feature most common to the beauties—mortal and immortal—of Rubens, without their insistent fleshiness. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy
[583] There is no doubt that the average Englishman [584] would be both amazed and shocked on first opening even the Kama Shastra Society's version; unless, perchance, he had been prepared by reading Burton's Arabian Nights or the Fiftieth Chapter of Gibbon's Decline and Fall with the Latin Notes, though even these give but a feeble idea of the fleshiness of The Scented Garden. — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright

obesity, corpulency

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