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fat acceptance en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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), page 4:

Antonyms

fatphobia

Hypernyms

body positivity