Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being plump; fullness of skin; distention to roundness: as, the plumpness of a boy; plumpness of the cheek.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being plump.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or state of being plump.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the bodily property of being well rounded

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Examples

  • She retains her usual colour and plumpness, which is a sign that the maternal exertions have not been too much for her.

    The Life of the Spider

  • But, Varys' "plumpness" is not crucial to the plot I know, he's a eunuch and he is a bit of a "master of disguise" anyway...

    Insider: Sean Bean cast as Ned

  • He was somewhat bald, somewhat grey, somewhat fat, and had lost that look of rosy plumpness which is seldom, I fear, compatible with hard work and late hours.

    Ayala's Angel

  • He was somewhat bald, somewhat grey, somewhat fat, and had lost that look of rosy plumpness which is seldom, I fear, compatible with hard work and late hours.

    Ayala's Angel

  • Charlotte who is just sixteen is shorter than her Sister, and though her figure cannot boast the easy dignity of Julia's, yet it has a pleasing plumpness which is in a different way as estimable.

    Love And Freindship

  • The most common type was that of mild obesity which men call "plumpness," a quality so prized since the world began that the women of all races by natural selection become relatively fatter than men.

    City of Endless Night

  • He was somewhat bald, somewhat grey, somewhat fat, and had lost that look of rosy plumpness which is seldom, I fear, compatible with hard work and late hours.

    Ayala's Angel

  • He was somewhat bald, somewhat grey, somewhat fat, and had lost that look of rosy plumpness which is seldom, I fear, compatible with hard work and late hours.

    Ayala's Angel

  • She doesn't have enough fat on her body to get the kind of plumpness she needs to pad her thighs and bum.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

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