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Fleshiness vs Fleshliness - What's the difference?

fleshiness | fleshliness |

As nouns the difference between fleshiness and fleshliness

is that fleshiness is the state or characteristic of being fleshy while fleshliness is (obsolete) indulgence in concerns of the flesh; carnality, bodily appetites.

fleshiness

English

Noun

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  • The state or characteristic of being fleshy.
  • * 1850 , , Antonina , ch. 2:
    • [T]he fleshiness of the chin, and the jovial redundancy of the cheeks, were, in their turn, utterly at variance with the character of the pale, noble forehead, and the expression of the quick, intelligent eyes.
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    • Synonyms

    * pudginess

    fleshliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; carnality, bodily appetites.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
  • *:when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...].