[f. FATTY + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being fatty.
1572. J. Jones, Bathes of Bath, II. 14 b. Some man will saye … that fattines is not in all waters.
1574. Newton, Health Mag., 26. Fattinesse in meate maketh verie small and the same ill nourishment, and puffeth vp the meate in the bealy.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 659. Even salt it selfe hath a certeine fattinesse and unctuosity in it.
1638. trans. Bacon’s Nat. Hist., II. 40. We are to come next to the oleosity or fattiness of them.
1870. A. W. Ward, trans. Curtius’ Hist. Greece, I. I. i. 29. Excessive fleshiness and fattiness of body were equally rare.
† b. concr. Grease. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 308. The sweat or fattinesse of vnwashed wooll.
