plumpness
noun/ˈplʌmpnəs/
Etymology From plump + -ness.
1
Usually The quality or state of being plump.
- From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
- For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- plumptitude, embonpoint
- Antonyms
- leanness