obesity
Pluralobesities
- 1The condition of carrying an excessive amount of body fat, often to a degree that threatens health.
The clinic offers programs to help patients manage obesity through diet and exercise.
Childhood obesity has become a major public health concern in many countries.
Note
Medicine treats it as a graded condition rather than a single state. Clinicians speak of severe obesity, and the word heads named disorders such as obesity hypoventilation syndrome, in which breathing fails to clear enough carbon dioxide. It is usually uncountable, but technical writing that separates kinds of the condition uses the plural, obesities. The Latin root obēsus simply meant "fat".
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Origin
From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus ("fat"); by surface analysis, obese plus the suffix -ity.