obesity

/əʊˈbiːsəti/ (bre, ipa) · /əʊˈbiːsəti/ (ame, ipa) · /ō-ˈbē-sə-tē/ (ame, mw)

obesity — noun

1. the medical state of carrying so much extra body fat that a person's health is p

1.名詞C1
釋義

the medical state of carrying so much extra body fat that a person's health is put at serious risk, often measured by body mass index.

例句

Doctors warn that childhood obesity has tripled in Taiwan since the 1990s.

collocation: childhood obesity

Obesity raises the chance of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.

subject of health-risk verbs: raises, causes, leads to

同義詞
  • overweight

    milder; describes being above a healthy weight without the medical severity of obesity

  • corpulence

    formal and old-fashioned; literary rather than medical

  • adiposity

    technical medical term for excess body fat tissue

反義詞
  • thinness

    general opposite, not medical

  • leanness

    positive connotation, suggests fit and trim

文法句型

uncountable noun

用法筆記

Uncountable noun — never written with 'a' or in the plural ('an obesity', 'obesities' are wrong). Subject is typically a person or population group; common verbs are 'cause', 'lead to', 'tackle', 'fight'.

常見錯誤

❌He has an obesity.
✅He has obesity.
💡obesity is uncountable; do not use 'a' or 'an'.
❌She suffers from obesities.
✅She suffers from obesity.
💡no plural form.