obesities
- 1Plural of obesity.
Researchers increasingly distinguish between several obesities with distinct underlying causes.
The review compared the various obesities observed across different age groups.
Note
A plural that exists because the noun can be counted as well as treated as a mass. Usually obesity names a single state and takes no plural, as in obesity is rising. When it is counted, it names kinds or cases, and the plural lets a writer keep them apart: several obesities with different causes. Outside clinical and research writing, the uncountable form is the safer choice.
obesities is a form of obesity
obesity, noun: The condition of carrying an excessive amount of body fat, often to a degree that threatens health. Full entry
- Forms
- obesityobesities plural
- Spelling
- obesity → obesities: change y to i, add -es
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