Why this word is great
CORPULENCE — [Noun] The condition of having a large or bulky body, especially due to excessive fat. From the Latin corpus ("body") and the suffix -ulentus ("full of, abounding in"), via Old French corpulence. Unlike "obesity," which charts a sterile clinical pathology, or "stoutness," which implies a fortified, barrel-like solidity, corpulence is a softer, more literary state of generous embodiment. It is the heft of a well-fed magistrate in a portrait by Frans Hals, the strain of a waistcoat button, and the slow, pendulous swing of a grandfather clock's brass weight—a quiet testament to the body's stubborn accumulation of days, a tangible sovereignty over the space one occupies.