'Fulsomeness' definitions:
Definition of 'fulsomeness'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Smug self-serving earnestness [syn: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction]
Definition of 'Fulsomeness'
From: GCIDE
- Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
- 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. [1913 Webster]
- And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." --Shak. -- {Ful"some*ly}, adv. -- {Ful"some*ness}, n. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]