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Definition of plumpness :
The quality or state of being plump.
Synonyms:
forthrightness, outspokenness, fat, unreserve, fattiness, obesity, candidness, plainspokenness, directness, embonpoint, adiposity, honesty, chubbiness, corpulency, unreservedness, rotundity, frankness, weight, openness, pudginess, grossness, pursiness, openheartedness, bluntness, fleshiness, fatness, roundness, straightforwardness, portliness, plainness, unguardedness
Usage examples:
- Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of plumpness under which he has literally staggered. - "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman", Thomas Hardy.
- His mother wept for joy as she saw the renewed plumpness of his cheeks, and declared that Egypt must indeed be a land of fatness; and his sisters surrounded him, smiling and kissing him, and asking questions, as though he were another Livingstone. - "The Bertrams", Anthony Trollope.
- But before she could get off, Winthrope sauntered up, hiding his yawns behind a hand which had regained most of its normal plumpness. - "Into the Primitive", Robert Ames Bennet.