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Synonyms for obesity
obe·si·ty

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 3 votes

  1. obesity

    Synonyms:
    fatness, fleshiness, corpulence, plumpness, corpulency, embonpoint

    Antonyms:
    leanness, thinness

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. fleshiness, obesity, corpulencynoun

    more than average fatness

    Synonyms:
    fleshiness, corpulency

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. obesitynoun

    Synonyms:
    fleshiness, fatness, corpulence, corpulency, plumpness, EMBONPOINT

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "obesity":

    obese, fatness, overweight

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. obesity

    Synonyms:
    Obesitas

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#9315obesity
#15613overweight
#19528obese
#100179fatness
#280352corpulence
#323259plumpness

How to use obesity in a sentence?

  1. Stephanie Cacioppo:

    Being lonely increases the risk of dying earlier by 26 percent, which is actually more than obesity, loneliness is widespread and contagious. It isan epidemic.

  2. Carole Sztalryd:

    [Brown fat cells] are an attractive therapeutic target for weight loss, and for anti-obesity or anti-type 2 Diabetes (T2D) therapies.

  3. Seema Kumar:

    It is important to know that in our study, stimulants had been used for only a fraction of a patient’s life, ranging between one and a half years to six years, it is not known if longer duration of stimulant treatment may alter the risk of obesity.

  4. Melina Jampolis:

    I believe initiatives and interventions like this should be a priority not only in the school setting, but could also be extended to the home and restaurant setting to combat our obesogenic environment and give our country's youth the best chance at fighting the obesity epidemic and avoiding a lifetime of obesity-related diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, depression, joint disease and certain types of cancer.

  5. Steven Kittner:

    Prevention of obesity is important since there is convincing evidence that obesity contributes to risk of diabetes and elevated blood pressure.


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