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fat acceptance

fat acceptance noun: the body positivity attitude that accepts and appreciates fatness or obesity in humans.

Noun

fat acceptance (uncountable)

  1. The body positivity attitude that accepts and appreciates fatness or obesity in humans.
    • Now, we aren’t discouraging dieters from learning about fat acceptance. Sometimes that disconnect between dieting and body acceptance takes a while to sort out.2009, Kate Harding, Marianne Kirby, “Accept That Diets Don’t Work”, in Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, New York, N.Y.: Perigee, →ISBN, part 1 (Health)...
    Antonyms:
    fatphobia

Antonyms of fat acceptance

Questions about fat acceptance

What does fat acceptance mean?
Fat acceptance means the body positivity attitude that accepts and appreciates fatness or obesity in humans.
What part of speech is fat acceptance?
Fat acceptance is a noun.

Words near fat acceptance in the dictionary

  1. Fasu
  2. fasudil
  3. Fasulo
  4. Fasulos
  5. fat
  6. fat acceptance
  7. fat activist
  8. fat activists
  9. fat and happy
  10. fat arrow
  11. fat arrows

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