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Fleshiness

Fleshiness \Flesh"i*ness\, n. The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
--Milton.

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fleshiness

n. The state or characteristic of being fleshy.

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fleshiness

n. more than average fatness [syn: obesity]

Usage examples of "fleshiness".

The resurrection of the frozen air, the stirring and quickening of the soil, and then this silent uprising of vegetation, this unearthly ascent of fleshiness and spikes.

I put down the fragment, and we crawled on through this tempting fleshiness for a space.

And as Phi-oo rolled him over into the darkness among the livid fleshiness again I felt a distinctly unpleasant sensation, although as he rolled the insect in him was confessed.

His body had the muscular fleshiness of those Mediterranean statues, the heavy thighs, the muscular back.

She had known about his affairs for several years, and they had enjoyed no intimacy for even longer, once he had allowed himself to get fat beyond the fleshiness that he had allowed himself before their marriage.