Fleshinesse

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The state or quality of having abundant flesh or being plump and full-bodied
2. The condition of possessing a thick, fleshy form or appearance with considerable bulk
3. The characteristic of being corpulent or having a substantial amount of flesh on the body

Etymology: Fleshiness is a plain English compound: "flesh" plus the suffix "-iness," which turns an adjective into a noun of quality. Its roots are Old English, and the -y adjective "fleshy" is the base, so the form is simply "fleshy" with the adjectival ending swapped for "-iness." "Fleshinesse" is a variant spelling in which the noun ends in a silent "-e," a pattern that appeared in Middle and early Modern English, when many nouns carried a final "e" as a holdover from older inflections. Forms like this were common before spelling standardized, so the spelling reflects the period rather than a different meaning.