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Etymology
From Middle English fatnesse, fattenesse, from Old English fǣtnes (“fatness, the richest part of anything”), equivalent to fat + -ness.
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fatness (countable and uncountable, plural fatnesses)
- The state, quality, or condition of being fat.
1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. , London: Edm Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79:Bread made of Pannick nouriſheth little, and is cold and dry, verie brittle, hauing in it neither clammineſſe, nor fatneſſe; and therefore it drieth a moiſt belly.
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 284:This fatness was Kartar Singh: it was the flesh singing, in bulging cantilenas and plump pedal-notes, a congenital and contented stupidity, a stupidity itself as positive as the sun.
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