overweight vs obesity
obesity vs overweightoverweight and obesity both are nouns.
overweight is an adjective but obesity is not an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| overweight | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| obesity | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
obesity is a hypernym of
overweight; that is, obesity is a
word with a broader meaning than overweight:
- overweight: the property of excessive fatness
- obesity: more than average fatness
Other hypernyms of overweight include
corpulency, fleshiness.
| overweight (noun) | obesity (noun) |
|---|---|
| the property of excessive fatness | more than average fatness |
| overweight (adjective) | obesity (adjective) |
|---|---|
| usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it |
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