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Definition of Fulsomeness
1. Noun. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
2. Noun. Smug self-serving earnestness.
Generic synonyms: Hypocrisy
Derivative terms: Fulsome, Oily, Oleaginous, Smarmy, Unctuous
Definition of Fulsomeness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fulsomeness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulsomeness
Literary usage of Fulsomeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... gives a sort of fulsomeness to the forms of address. Thus Honorius in official
communications addresses Symmachus: ..."
2. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"You cannot imagine the fulsomeness of his flatteries, vous ne sauriez vous faire
une idée de ce qu il ya île dégoûtant dans ses flatteries, The fulsomeness ..."
3. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench, Abram Smythe Palmer (1906)
"... \I have seen it questioned whether fulsomeness.jin the first syllable of '
fulsome ' we are to find ' foul' or ' full'. There should be no question on ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... men and women, and all over Greece and those hot countries; to absterge belike
that fulsomeness of sweat, to which they are there subject. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... so uniformly severe, and a denunciation so intensely bitter as to exceed the
completeness of its approval and the fulsomeness of its praise in the past. ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"The terrible distress of the poor scholar excuses the fulsomeness of the language
in which the king's virtues are set forth. [Biog. ..."
7. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1898)
"On the whole the biography is defensive of Alexander, but it strikes the happy
mean between the fulsomeness of earlier histories and the severities of ..."
8. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... gives a sort of fulsomeness to the forms of address. Thus Honorius in official
communications addresses Symmachus: ..."
9. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"You cannot imagine the fulsomeness of his flatteries, vous ne sauriez vous faire
une idée de ce qu il ya île dégoûtant dans ses flatteries, The fulsomeness ..."
10. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench, Abram Smythe Palmer (1906)
"... \I have seen it questioned whether fulsomeness.jin the first syllable of '
fulsome ' we are to find ' foul' or ' full'. There should be no question on ..."
11. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... men and women, and all over Greece and those hot countries; to absterge belike
that fulsomeness of sweat, to which they are there subject. ..."
12. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... so uniformly severe, and a denunciation so intensely bitter as to exceed the
completeness of its approval and the fulsomeness of its praise in the past. ..."
13. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"The terrible distress of the poor scholar excuses the fulsomeness of the language
in which the king's virtues are set forth. [Biog. ..."
14. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1898)
"On the whole the biography is defensive of Alexander, but it strikes the happy
mean between the fulsomeness of earlier histories and the severities of ..."
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